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.
Foreword
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
