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This influential text by French historian and theorist François Brunet considers the invention and history of photography as the birth of an idea, rather than a new type of image. This ''idea photography'' combines a logical theme- that of an art without artistry- and the democratic political promise of an art for all. Officially endorsed by the 1839 French law on the(...)
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This influential text by French historian and theorist François Brunet considers the invention and history of photography as the birth of an idea, rather than a new type of image. This ''idea photography'' combines a logical theme- that of an art without artistry- and the democratic political promise of an art for all. Officially endorsed by the 1839 French law on the(...)
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The birth of the idea of photography
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This influential text by French historian and theorist François Brunet considers the invention and history of photography as the birth of an idea, rather than a new type of image. This ''idea photography'' combines a logical theme- that of an art without artistry- and the democratic political promise of an art for all. Officially endorsed by the 1839 French law on the daguerreotype, this idea reverberated throughout the nineteenth century in Europe and America. Brunet shows how emerging image technologies and practices in France and Britain were linked to this logical/political construction of photography, from the earliest researches of Nicéphore Niépce, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, and Henry Fox Talbot up to the turn of the twentieth century. The parallel development of the Kodak camera and Alfred Stieglitz's ''straight'' vision in the United States then fulfilled, while also depreciating, the utopian promise of photography for all.
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This influential text by French historian and theorist François Brunet considers the invention and history of photography as the birth of an idea, rather than a new type of image. This ''idea photography'' combines a logical theme- that of an art without artistry- and the democratic political promise of an art for all. Officially endorsed by the 1839 French law on the daguerreotype, this idea reverberated throughout the nineteenth century in Europe and America. Brunet shows how emerging image technologies and practices in France and Britain were linked to this logical/political construction of photography, from the earliest researches of Nicéphore Niépce, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, and Henry Fox Talbot up to the turn of the twentieth century. The parallel development of the Kodak camera and Alfred Stieglitz's ''straight'' vision in the United States then fulfilled, while also depreciating, the utopian promise of photography for all.
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The technological hand
The technological hand
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''The Technological Hand'' examines the influence of technological strategies of image finding on contemporary art. The outlined connections to the history of photography, painting, and Conceptual Art create a new model for understanding pictorial culture in the beginning 21st century. The texts are complemented by selected works by John Baldessari, Marcel Broodthaers,(...)
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''The Technological Hand'' examines the influence of technological strategies of image finding on contemporary art. The outlined connections to the history of photography, painting, and Conceptual Art create a new model for understanding pictorial culture in the beginning 21st century. The texts are complemented by selected works by John Baldessari, Marcel Broodthaers,(...)
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''The Technological Hand'' examines the influence of technological strategies of image finding on contemporary art. The outlined connections to the history of photography, painting, and Conceptual Art create a new model for understanding pictorial culture in the beginning 21st century. The texts are complemented by selected works by John Baldessari, Marcel Broodthaers, Alice Channer, Jan Dibbets, Wade Guyton, Spiros Hadjidjanos, Thomas Ruff, Seth Price, Kelley Walker, and Christopher Wool.
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''The Technological Hand'' examines the influence of technological strategies of image finding on contemporary art. The outlined connections to the history of photography, painting, and Conceptual Art create a new model for understanding pictorial culture in the beginning 21st century. The texts are complemented by selected works by John Baldessari, Marcel Broodthaers, Alice Channer, Jan Dibbets, Wade Guyton, Spiros Hadjidjanos, Thomas Ruff, Seth Price, Kelley Walker, and Christopher Wool.
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Photographier l'architecture
Photographier l'architecture
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La photographie d'architecture est un genre à part entière, souvent indispensable à la diffusion et à la communication d'un projet de bâtiment ou d'aménagement. Les architectes ont recours à la commande photographique pour présenter leur création, en traduire les intentions et en souligner le potentiel. Le photographe d'architecture se met ainsi au service du bâtiment.(...)
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La photographie d'architecture est un genre à part entière, souvent indispensable à la diffusion et à la communication d'un projet de bâtiment ou d'aménagement. Les architectes ont recours à la commande photographique pour présenter leur création, en traduire les intentions et en souligner le potentiel. Le photographe d'architecture se met ainsi au service du bâtiment.(...)
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Photographier l'architecture
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La photographie d'architecture est un genre à part entière, souvent indispensable à la diffusion et à la communication d'un projet de bâtiment ou d'aménagement. Les architectes ont recours à la commande photographique pour présenter leur création, en traduire les intentions et en souligner le potentiel. Le photographe d'architecture se met ainsi au service du bâtiment. Loin d'être un simple décor, ce dernier est au coeur du travail photographique. Souhaitant mettre en avant le travail de ces artistes qui restent souvent dans l'ombre du projet qu'ils documentent, Karine Guilbert est allée à la rencontre de quinze d'entre eux. Leurs quinze approches sont diverses, dans la forme comme dans l'intention. Leurs projets personnels cohabitent avec leurs travaux de commande ou d'inventaire. Des images parfaitement épurées s'entrechoquent avec des clichés humainement incarnés. Des volontés militantes rencontrent des promenades poétiques. Il en résulte un panorama enrichissant et complexe d'une discipline à la croisée des chemins et des regards.
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La photographie d'architecture est un genre à part entière, souvent indispensable à la diffusion et à la communication d'un projet de bâtiment ou d'aménagement. Les architectes ont recours à la commande photographique pour présenter leur création, en traduire les intentions et en souligner le potentiel. Le photographe d'architecture se met ainsi au service du bâtiment. Loin d'être un simple décor, ce dernier est au coeur du travail photographique. Souhaitant mettre en avant le travail de ces artistes qui restent souvent dans l'ombre du projet qu'ils documentent, Karine Guilbert est allée à la rencontre de quinze d'entre eux. Leurs quinze approches sont diverses, dans la forme comme dans l'intention. Leurs projets personnels cohabitent avec leurs travaux de commande ou d'inventaire. Des images parfaitement épurées s'entrechoquent avec des clichés humainement incarnés. Des volontés militantes rencontrent des promenades poétiques. Il en résulte un panorama enrichissant et complexe d'une discipline à la croisée des chemins et des regards.
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September 2019
September 2019
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Le 11 juin 1985, un mardi, Denis Roche prend une photographie où, ayant accroché son appareil à la branche d’un arbre et enclenché le retardateur, il se met en scène entrant dans l’image et marchant vers le porche muré d’une église de Cologne sur lequel un squelette graffité semble l’attendre. Cette composition, qui épouse la forme d’un récit, notamment par la description(...)
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Le 11 juin 1985, un mardi, Denis Roche prend une photographie où, ayant accroché son appareil à la branche d’un arbre et enclenché le retardateur, il se met en scène entrant dans l’image et marchant vers le porche muré d’une église de Cologne sur lequel un squelette graffité semble l’attendre. Cette composition, qui épouse la forme d’un récit, notamment par la description(...)
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Vanishing point (approches de Denis Roche)
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Le 11 juin 1985, un mardi, Denis Roche prend une photographie où, ayant accroché son appareil à la branche d’un arbre et enclenché le retardateur, il se met en scène entrant dans l’image et marchant vers le porche muré d’une église de Cologne sur lequel un squelette graffité semble l’attendre. Cette composition, qui épouse la forme d’un récit, notamment par la description que donne Denis Roche de cette prise de vue, tout en proposant une réflexion métaphysique poignante, donne naissance à une « poétique » singulière où le texte et l’image sont considérés à parts égales, déployant depuis cette « visée » une perspective où se rejoignent la mémoire et la mort, l’instant et le souvenir, la présence et l’absence, le sujet et l’objet.
Vanishing point (approches de Denis Roche)
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Le 11 juin 1985, un mardi, Denis Roche prend une photographie où, ayant accroché son appareil à la branche d’un arbre et enclenché le retardateur, il se met en scène entrant dans l’image et marchant vers le porche muré d’une église de Cologne sur lequel un squelette graffité semble l’attendre. Cette composition, qui épouse la forme d’un récit, notamment par la description que donne Denis Roche de cette prise de vue, tout en proposant une réflexion métaphysique poignante, donne naissance à une « poétique » singulière où le texte et l’image sont considérés à parts égales, déployant depuis cette « visée » une perspective où se rejoignent la mémoire et la mort, l’instant et le souvenir, la présence et l’absence, le sujet et l’objet.
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In the spring of 2010, the Brooklyn-based quarterly magazine Cabinet invited poet and cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum to begin writing a regular column. Entitled "Legend," the column had a highly unusual premise. Every three months, the editors of the magazine would ask Koestenbaum to write one or more extended captions for a single photograph with which they had(...)
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In the spring of 2010, the Brooklyn-based quarterly magazine Cabinet invited poet and cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum to begin writing a regular column. Entitled "Legend," the column had a highly unusual premise. Every three months, the editors of the magazine would ask Koestenbaum to write one or more extended captions for a single photograph with which they had(...)
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Notes on glaze: 18 photographic investigations
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In the spring of 2010, the Brooklyn-based quarterly magazine Cabinet invited poet and cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum to begin writing a regular column. Entitled "Legend," the column had a highly unusual premise. Every three months, the editors of the magazine would ask Koestenbaum to write one or more extended captions for a single photograph with which they had provided him; drawn from obscure vernacular, commercial and scientific sources, all of the images were unfamiliar to the author. After 18 installments, Koestenbaum concluded his column in the winter of 2015. 'Notes on Glaze', featuring an introductory essay by the author, collects all the "Legend" columns, as well as their accompanying photographs. Refusing the distancing language of critical disinterest, Koestenbaum’s columns always locate the author in intimate proximity to the subjects portrayed in the photographs and to the impossibly variegated cast of characters—ranging from Debbie Reynolds to Duccio, the Dalai Lama to Barbra Streisand; from Hegel to Pee-wee Herman, and Emily Dickinson to Cicciolina—that pass through these texts.
Notes on glaze: 18 photographic investigations
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In the spring of 2010, the Brooklyn-based quarterly magazine Cabinet invited poet and cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum to begin writing a regular column. Entitled "Legend," the column had a highly unusual premise. Every three months, the editors of the magazine would ask Koestenbaum to write one or more extended captions for a single photograph with which they had provided him; drawn from obscure vernacular, commercial and scientific sources, all of the images were unfamiliar to the author. After 18 installments, Koestenbaum concluded his column in the winter of 2015. 'Notes on Glaze', featuring an introductory essay by the author, collects all the "Legend" columns, as well as their accompanying photographs. Refusing the distancing language of critical disinterest, Koestenbaum’s columns always locate the author in intimate proximity to the subjects portrayed in the photographs and to the impossibly variegated cast of characters—ranging from Debbie Reynolds to Duccio, the Dalai Lama to Barbra Streisand; from Hegel to Pee-wee Herman, and Emily Dickinson to Cicciolina—that pass through these texts.
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April 2016
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Photographs of environmental phenomena: scientific images in the wake of environmental awareness
Photographs of environmental phenomena: scientific images in the wake of environmental awareness
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Well before today's debates on global warming and climate change, photographic images have played an important role in educating the general public about the wonders of nature and the destruction of the global environment. Most now-iconic images have historical precursors. Gisela Parak illuminates how the interrelationship of photography and science gave rise to a genre(...)
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Well before today's debates on global warming and climate change, photographic images have played an important role in educating the general public about the wonders of nature and the destruction of the global environment. Most now-iconic images have historical precursors. Gisela Parak illuminates how the interrelationship of photography and science gave rise to a genre(...)
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Photographs of environmental phenomena: scientific images in the wake of environmental awareness
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Well before today's debates on global warming and climate change, photographic images have played an important role in educating the general public about the wonders of nature and the destruction of the global environment. Most now-iconic images have historical precursors. Gisela Parak illuminates how the interrelationship of photography and science gave rise to a genre of photographs of environmental phenomena. She emphasizes the power of these images to support and instruct the scientific pursuit of knowledge, as well as their potency as a means of persuading and shaping public opinion.
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Well before today's debates on global warming and climate change, photographic images have played an important role in educating the general public about the wonders of nature and the destruction of the global environment. Most now-iconic images have historical precursors. Gisela Parak illuminates how the interrelationship of photography and science gave rise to a genre of photographs of environmental phenomena. She emphasizes the power of these images to support and instruct the scientific pursuit of knowledge, as well as their potency as a means of persuading and shaping public opinion.
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The photographic object 1970
The photographic object 1970
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This publication proposes precedents for contemporary artists who continue to challenge traditional practices and categories. Mary Statzer has gathered a range of diverse materials, including contributions from Bunnell, Eva Respini and Drew Sawyer, Erin O’Toole, Lucy Soutter, and Rebecca Morse as well as interviews with Ellen Brooks, Michael de Courcy, Richard Jackson,(...)
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This publication proposes precedents for contemporary artists who continue to challenge traditional practices and categories. Mary Statzer has gathered a range of diverse materials, including contributions from Bunnell, Eva Respini and Drew Sawyer, Erin O’Toole, Lucy Soutter, and Rebecca Morse as well as interviews with Ellen Brooks, Michael de Courcy, Richard Jackson,(...)
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The photographic object 1970
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This publication proposes precedents for contemporary artists who continue to challenge traditional practices and categories. Mary Statzer has gathered a range of diverse materials, including contributions from Bunnell, Eva Respini and Drew Sawyer, Erin O’Toole, Lucy Soutter, and Rebecca Morse as well as interviews with Ellen Brooks, Michael de Courcy, Richard Jackson, Jerry McMillan, and other of the exhibition’s surviving artists.
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This publication proposes precedents for contemporary artists who continue to challenge traditional practices and categories. Mary Statzer has gathered a range of diverse materials, including contributions from Bunnell, Eva Respini and Drew Sawyer, Erin O’Toole, Lucy Soutter, and Rebecca Morse as well as interviews with Ellen Brooks, Michael de Courcy, Richard Jackson, Jerry McMillan, and other of the exhibition’s surviving artists.
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Writing in the context of two Polaroid Corporation bankruptcies, not to mention the obsolescence of its film, Peter Buse argues that Polaroid was, and is, distinguished by its process—by the fact that, as the New York Times put it in 1947, “the camera does the rest.” Polaroid was often dismissed as a toy, but Buse takes it seriously, showing how it(...)
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Writing in the context of two Polaroid Corporation bankruptcies, not to mention the obsolescence of its film, Peter Buse argues that Polaroid was, and is, distinguished by its process—by the fact that, as the New York Times put it in 1947, “the camera does the rest.” Polaroid was often dismissed as a toy, but Buse takes it seriously, showing how it(...)
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The camera does the rest: how Polaroid changed photography
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Writing in the context of two Polaroid Corporation bankruptcies, not to mention the obsolescence of its film, Peter Buse argues that Polaroid was, and is, distinguished by its process—by the fact that, as the New York Times put it in 1947, “the camera does the rest.” Polaroid was often dismissed as a toy, but Buse takes it seriously, showing how it encouraged photographic play as well as new forms of artistic practice. Drawing on unprecedented access to the archives of the Polaroid Corporation, Buse reveals Polaroid as photography at its most intimate, where the photographer, photograph, and subject sit in close proximity in both time and space—making Polaroid not only the perfect party camera but also the tool for frankly salacious pictures taking. Along the way, Buse tells the story of the Polaroid Corporation and its ultimately doomed hard-copy wager against the rising tide of digital imaging technology. He explores the continuities and the differences between Polaroid and digital, reflecting on what Polaroid can tell us about how we snap photos today. Richly illustrated, The Camera Does the Rest will delight historians, art critics, analog fanatics, photographers, and all those who miss the thrill of waiting to see what develops.
The camera does the rest: how Polaroid changed photography
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Writing in the context of two Polaroid Corporation bankruptcies, not to mention the obsolescence of its film, Peter Buse argues that Polaroid was, and is, distinguished by its process—by the fact that, as the New York Times put it in 1947, “the camera does the rest.” Polaroid was often dismissed as a toy, but Buse takes it seriously, showing how it encouraged photographic play as well as new forms of artistic practice. Drawing on unprecedented access to the archives of the Polaroid Corporation, Buse reveals Polaroid as photography at its most intimate, where the photographer, photograph, and subject sit in close proximity in both time and space—making Polaroid not only the perfect party camera but also the tool for frankly salacious pictures taking. Along the way, Buse tells the story of the Polaroid Corporation and its ultimately doomed hard-copy wager against the rising tide of digital imaging technology. He explores the continuities and the differences between Polaroid and digital, reflecting on what Polaroid can tell us about how we snap photos today. Richly illustrated, The Camera Does the Rest will delight historians, art critics, analog fanatics, photographers, and all those who miss the thrill of waiting to see what develops.
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From the first sets of photographic records made by Western travelers to doctored portraits of Chairman Mao and the avant-garde photographic performances of the post–Cultural Revolution era, photography in China has followed divergent paths. In this book, Wu Hung explores the multiple histories of photographic production in China, using them to tell a larger story about(...)
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From the first sets of photographic records made by Western travelers to doctored portraits of Chairman Mao and the avant-garde photographic performances of the post–Cultural Revolution era, photography in China has followed divergent paths. In this book, Wu Hung explores the multiple histories of photographic production in China, using them to tell a larger story about(...)
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Zooming in: histories of photography in China
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From the first sets of photographic records made by Western travelers to doctored portraits of Chairman Mao and the avant-garde photographic performances of the post–Cultural Revolution era, photography in China has followed divergent paths. In this book, Wu Hung explores the multiple histories of photographic production in China, using them to tell a larger story about China’s shifting sociopolitical contexts and the different agendas, technologies, and aesthetics that have helped define its arts.
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From the first sets of photographic records made by Western travelers to doctored portraits of Chairman Mao and the avant-garde photographic performances of the post–Cultural Revolution era, photography in China has followed divergent paths. In this book, Wu Hung explores the multiple histories of photographic production in China, using them to tell a larger story about China’s shifting sociopolitical contexts and the different agendas, technologies, and aesthetics that have helped define its arts.
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The documentary impulse
The documentary impulse
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Stuart Franklin took one of the most powerful photographs of the twentieth century - the 'tank man' in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989. From his insightful position as a photographer, Franklin explores why we are driven to visually document our experiences and the world around us. He focuses on photography but traces this universal need through art, literature and(...)
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Stuart Franklin took one of the most powerful photographs of the twentieth century - the 'tank man' in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989. From his insightful position as a photographer, Franklin explores why we are driven to visually document our experiences and the world around us. He focuses on photography but traces this universal need through art, literature and(...)
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The documentary impulse
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Stuart Franklin took one of the most powerful photographs of the twentieth century - the 'tank man' in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989. From his insightful position as a photographer, Franklin explores why we are driven to visually document our experiences and the world around us. He focuses on photography but traces this universal need through art, literature and science. Looking at photojournalism, war photography and work recording our culture, Franklin identifies some of its driving impulses: curiosity, outrage, reform and ritual; the search for evidence, for beauty, for therapy; and the immortalization of memory. As our understanding of 'documentary' continues to expand, Franklin considers photographic staging - where, perhaps, the future of the genre may lie: in search of truth over fact.
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Stuart Franklin took one of the most powerful photographs of the twentieth century - the 'tank man' in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989. From his insightful position as a photographer, Franklin explores why we are driven to visually document our experiences and the world around us. He focuses on photography but traces this universal need through art, literature and science. Looking at photojournalism, war photography and work recording our culture, Franklin identifies some of its driving impulses: curiosity, outrage, reform and ritual; the search for evidence, for beauty, for therapy; and the immortalization of memory. As our understanding of 'documentary' continues to expand, Franklin considers photographic staging - where, perhaps, the future of the genre may lie: in search of truth over fact.
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April 2016
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