Introduction: The State of photography, the status of photographs -- Building images, building spaces / Madeline Yale Preston. Single artist spotlights: Jason DeMarte. Letha Wilson. Mark Dorf. Eva Stenram. Anthony Goicolea. Interviews: Adam Magyar. Darren Harvey-Regan. Hank Willis Thomas. Ruth Van Beek -- Constructing places / Stacy J. Platt. Single artist spotlights: Shirana Shahbazi, Susana Reisman, Liliana Porter. Interviews: Wang Ningde. Susan kae Grant -- Sensations of place: artist altered environments / Liz Wells. Single artist spotlights: Adam Ekberg, Noémie Goudal. Matt Siber. Interviews: Laurent Millet. Thomas Jackson -- Schematic traces: systems of making / Kate Palmer Albers. Single artist spotlights: Natalie Czech. Shizuka Yokomizo. Pato Hebert. Interviews: Penelope Umbrico. Mishka Henner -- Camera-less: photographic fidelity (and infidelity) / Katherine Ware. Single artist spotlights: Farrah Karapetian. Shimpei Takeda. Brittany Nelson. Interviews: Aspen Mays, Liz Deschenes -- Performing for the camera: postmodernism, antimodernism, and the performative photograph / William J. Simmons. Single artist spotlights: Renée Cox. Ou Zhihang. Stacey Tyrell. Interviews: Lily McElroy. Hillerbrand+Magsamen.
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This compendium examines the choices, construction, inclusions and exemptions, and expanded practices involved in the process of creating a photograph. Focusing on work created in the past twenty-five years, this volume is divided into sections that address a separate means of creating photographs as careful constructs: Directing Spaces, Constructing Places, Performing Space, Building Images, and Camera-less Images. Introduced by both a curator and a scholar, each section features contemporary artists in conversation with curators, critics, gallerists, artists, and art historians. The writings include narratives by the artist, writings on their work, and examinations of studio practices. This pioneering book is the first of its kind to explore this topic beyond those artists building sets to photograph.
Focal Press companion to the constructed image in contemporary photography.