Art and Photography

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Edited by David Campany

Phaidon Press

Due/Published July 2003, 304 pages, cloth

ISBN 0714842869

Art and Photography surveys the major presence of photography in artistic practice from the 1960s onwards. Today photography is arts pre-eminent medium, yet it took the whole of the last century for it to acquire this status. On its invention, the photograph was considered a purely mechanical, artless object which could not be considered among the fine arts. Despite its increasing use by the centurys most significant artists, only since the late 1960s have art museums gradually begun to exhibit and acquire the photograph as an artwork. This volume provides an authoritative overview of photographys place in recent art history, contextualised in the Documents section by original artists statements and interviews, and texts by leading critics, writers and theorists of the late twentieth century.

193 colour and 72 duotone illustrations.