The photograph as contemporary art /
By: Cotton, Charlotte.
Series: World of art: Publisher: London ; New York, N.Y. : Thames & Hudson, c2009Edition: 2nd ed.Description: 248 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780500204016 (pbk.); 9780500204016:; 0500204012 (pbk.).Subject(s): Photography, Artistic -- History | Photography, Artistic -- 20th century | Photography, Artistic -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 770Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 770 COT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0076880 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-243) and index.
If this is art -- Once upon a time -- Deadpan -- Something and nothing -- Intimate life -- Moments in history -- Revived and remade -- Physical and material.
Charlotte Cotton looks at the many different ways contemporary artists have embraced photography. The text explains the differences between artists such as Andreas Gursky, Nan Goldin and Gillian Wearing, and introduces the main techniques and personalities of the medium.