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Photography reinvented : the collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker / Sarah Greenough with Philip Brookman, Andrea Nelson, Leslie Ureña, Diane Waggoner.

Contributor(s): Greenough, Sarah, 1951- [author.] | Brookman, Philip [author.] | Nelson, Andrea (Andrea Jeannette) [author.] | Ureña, Leslie J [author.] | Waggoner, Diane [author.] | National Gallery of Art (U.S.) [host institution.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2016Description: xii, 105 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 31 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780691172873 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Meyerhoff, Robert -- Photograph collections -- Exhibitions | Becker, Rheda -- Photograph collections -- Exhibitions | Photography, Artistic -- Exhibitions | Photography | PhotographyDDC classification: 770.7'4753 Summary: 'Photography Reinvented' brings together 35 works by 18 critically acclaimed artists who, through innovative experimentation and visionary conceptual scope, have changed the course of contemporary photography. From the seemingly objective, straightforward style and large-scale, vibrantly coloured prints of famed Dusseldorf School photographers Andreas Gursky, Candida Hofer, Thomas Struth, and Thomas Ruff to works by groundbreaking contemporary artists, including Thomas Demand, Vik Muniz, Cindy Sherman, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Catherine Opie, 'Photography Reinvented' traces the aesthetic, technical, and philosophical shifts of the art form during a period of substantial change. Some of the artists, such as Sherman and Demand as well as Muniz and John Baldessari, explore the nature of photography as a medium that appropriates imagery from mass culture and other sources.
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Published to accompany an exhibition of the same name held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, 30th September, 2016- 5th March, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

'Photography Reinvented' brings together 35 works by 18 critically acclaimed artists who, through innovative experimentation and visionary conceptual scope, have changed the course of contemporary photography. From the seemingly objective, straightforward style and large-scale, vibrantly coloured prints of famed Dusseldorf School photographers Andreas Gursky, Candida Hofer, Thomas Struth, and Thomas Ruff to works by groundbreaking contemporary artists, including Thomas Demand, Vik Muniz, Cindy Sherman, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Catherine Opie, 'Photography Reinvented' traces the aesthetic, technical, and philosophical shifts of the art form during a period of substantial change. Some of the artists, such as Sherman and Demand as well as Muniz and John Baldessari, explore the nature of photography as a medium that appropriates imagery from mass culture and other sources.

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