Title & Author:

The uses of photography : art, politics, and the reinvention of a medium / edited by Jill Dawsey ; with contributions by David Antin, Jill Dawsey, Pamela M. Lee, Judith Rodenbeck, and Benjamin J. Young.

Publication:

La Jolla, California : Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego ; Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
©2016

Description:

223 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name organized and presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla, California, September 24, 2016-January 2, 2017"--Colophon.
Photographers include: David Antin ; Eleanor Antin ; John Baldessari ; Jean-Pierre Gorin ; Helen Mayer Harrison ; Newton Harrison ; Louis Hock ; Allan Kaprow ; Fred Lonidier ; Babette Mangolte ; Martha Rosler ; Allan Sekula ; Lorna Simpson ; Elizabeth Sisco ; Phel Steinmetz ; Carrie Mae Weems.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-207) and index.
The uses of photography: an introduction / Jill Dawsey -- "There was no radicalization ... It was normal for us": teaching and learning with the visual arts department, 1967-76 / Pamela M. Lee -- Various small ethnofictions of coastal California / Judith Rodenbeck -- Documents and documentary: San Diego, c. 1973 / Benjamin J. Young -- Remembering recording representing / David Antin.

Summary:

Examines a network of artists who were active in Southern California between the late 1960s and early 1980s and whose experiments with photography opened the medium to a profusion of new strategies and subjects. These artists introduced urgent social issues and themes of everyday life into the seemingly neutral territory of conceptual art, through photographic works that took on hybrid forms, from books and postcards to video and text-and-image installations. Tracing a history of photoconceptual practice, this book focuses on an artistic community that formed in and around the young University of California San Diego, founded in 1960, and its visual arts department, founded in 1967. Artists such as Eleanor Antin, Allan Kaprow, Fred Lonidier, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula, and Carrie Mae Weems employed photography and its expanded forms as a means to dismantle modernist autonomy, to contest notions of photographic truth, and to engage in political critique. The work of these artists shaped emergent accounts of postmodernism in the visual arts and their influence is felt throughout the global contemporary art world today. --From publisher description.

Resources:
Additional Information at Google Books

ISBN:

0520290593 (hardcover)
9780520290594 (hardcover)

Subject:

Photography California San Diego History 20th century Exhibitions.
Photography Political aspects Exhibitions.
Photography Social aspects Exhibitions.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) History 20th century Exhibitions.
Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.
Photographie Californie San Diego Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Photographie Aspect politique Expositions.
Photographie Aspect social Expositions.
Influence littéraire, artistique, etc. Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Photographie artistique Expositions.
ART Art & Politics.
ART History Contemporary (1945- )
PHOTOGRAPHY Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions Group Shows.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Photography.
Photography, Artistic.
Photography Political aspects.
Photography Social aspects.
Fotografie
California San Diego.

Form/genre:

Exhibition Publications.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Dawsey, Jill, editor, writer of added commentary.
Antin, David, writer of added commentary.
Lee, Pamela M., writer of added commentary.
Rodenbeck, Judith F., writer of added commentary.
Young, Benjamin J., writer of added commentary.
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, host institution.

Art, politics, and the reinvention of a medium

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293326
Call No.: BIB 238170
Status: Available