Foreign postmodern photography

Author: Gu Zheng
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Publish Date: 2000-07-01
Features: Mechanical things like photography have always been regarded as lacking artistic creativity. But in the past century, it finally gained its own power, discovered its fundamental stance, and established the form of objective visual representation. This century can be seen as an era where various modernisms rose one after another. "Postmodernism has revived the focus on history," and in the recording of history, the role of photography is undoubtedly the most prominent. Postmodernism influences photography, and photography records various historical memories of postmodernism in its photographs. Against the backdrop of postmodern art, this book gives a brilliant description of the emergence and development of postmodern photography; it provides a detailed review of 12 representative postmodern photographers: Robert Mapplethorpe, Andres Serrano, Thomas Struth, Nobuyoshi Araki, Joan Spence, Deidi Sherman, Kazuo Ishikawa, Sherry Levine, Nan Goldin, Jeff Wall, etc. The book is richly illustrated, which is its greatest feature.