David Campany

Las fotografías más representativas del mundo: imágenes innovadoras que se han convertido en puntos de referencia en nuestra concepción de nosotros mismos y del mundo que nos rodea, con textos redactados por un equipo internacional de criticos de arte, periodistas y expertos. Organizado cronologicamente, el libro repasa la evolucion de la fotografia creativa en cada epoca, con su correspondiente marco historico, y situa las obras en el contexto de los avances culturales y sociales, con informacion sobre obras, influencias y hechos fundamentales. Destaca a los fotografos que mejor ejemplifican cada genero fotografico, con un analisis detallado de su trabajo. Un homenaje a las fotografias mas hermosas, significativas e inspiradoras que ha dado este medio moderno (cuyo nombre, que significa literalmente escribir con luz, sugiere su potencial para captar los momentos destacados de nuestras vidas). El libro comienza con una vision general de la fotografia, situandola en el contexto de los avances sociales y culturales que han tenido lugar en todo el mundo desde su aparicion. A continuacion, se traza la rapida evolucion del estilo fotografico, epoca a epoca y movimiento a movimiento. Los diferentes apartados, con sus correspondientes fotografias, abarcan todos los generos, desde los primeros retratos y escenas hasta los montajes manipulados por medios digitales, las imagenes deportivas tomadas en decimas de segundo y las fotografias conceptuales mas actuales. Asimismo, se analizan las ideas y los trabajos de fotografos destacados para revelar sus motivaciones, sus influencias y sus objetivos.

Art and Photography The first major survey of photography's place in recent art history, now available in paperback.Edited by David Campany The most authoritative and wide ranging survey to explore the place of photography in contemporary art International artists of the last four decades are each represented by a significant work or series, accompanied by a lucid explanatory text Includes texts by some of the most significant writers of the late 20th century, such as the theorists Roland Barthes and Jean Baudrillard, and artists Victor Burgin and Jeff Wall Essential reference work for students, professionals and all readers interested in photography and media More about this titleBack to top of page When published in 2003 Art and Photography was the first book of its kind to survey the major presence of photography at the centre of artistic practice from the 1960s onwards. On its invention, the photograph was considered a purely mechanical, an artless object that could not be included in the fine arts. Despite its increasing use by the twentieth century's most significant artists, only since the late 1960s have art museums gradually begun to exhibit and acquire the photograph as an artwork. Today photography is the pre-eminent artistic medium for contemporary artists. Now available in paperback, this volume provides a comprehensive survey of photography's place in recent art history, further contextualized in the Documents section by original artists' statements and interviews, together with critical and theoretical reflections on the photographic and the art of the photograph. Survey David Campany provides a comprehensive historical overview of photography's place in twentieth-century art history. Works section of colour and duotone images, each accompanied by an extended caption. Divided thematically, each section explores the different uses to which photography has been put in twentieth-century culture, and the diverse ways in which artists have explored and pushed the boundaries of these different aspects of photography. Among more than 190 examples of the most significant photographic projects by artists are works by John Baldessari, Lewis Baltz, Bernd &

Este libro aborda las particularidades y el estilo de treinta artistas. Asimismo analiza los diferentes significados y funciones del arte a partir de cuadros, esculturas, fotografías y grabados. Todo ello estimulando la creatividad y la imaginacion de los niños, invitandoles a preguntarse por que los artistas crean sus obras de una forma u otra, y ayudandoles a entender el color, la forma , la textura y el diseño.

Art and Photography is the first book of its kind to survey 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 century`s 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 photography`s 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.

Fred Herzog is known for his unusual use of colour in the fifties and sixties, a time when art photography was almost exclusively associated with black and white imagery. The Canadian photographer worked almost exclusively with Kodachrome slide film for over 50 years, and only in the past decade has technology allowed him to make archival pigment prints that match the exceptional color and intensity of the Kodachrome slide. In this respect, his photographs can be seen as a pre-figuration of the New Color photographers of the seventies.This book will bring together over 230 images, many never before reproduced, and will feature essays by acclaimed authors David Campany and Hans-Michael Koetzle. Fred Herzog will be the most comprehensive publication on this important photographer to date.

Nascut a Brooklyn en 1922, Louis Stettner va començar a fer fotos sent un adolescent en la década de 1930, i va dedicar gairebé vuitanta anys de la seva vida a la fotografia. Després d

Nacido en Brooklyn en 1922, Louis Stettner comenzó a hacer fotos siendo un adolescente en la década de 1930, y dedicó casi ochenta años de su vida a la fotografía. Tras prestar servicio en el Pacífico como fotografo para el ejercito de Estados Unidos durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, se traslado a Paris en 1947. A lo largo de su vida, alterno la residencia durante largos periodos en Francia y Estados Unidos antes de establecerse definitivamente en Paris desde 1990 hasta su muerte, en 2016.A caballo entre estas dos culturas, la obra de Stettner incorpora elementos de la fotografia callejera estadounidense y de la fotografia humanista francesa. Formado en la escuela neoyorquina de la Photo League, aprendio con Sid Grossman y fue un gran amigo de Weegee. En Paris, el joven fotografo conocio a Brassai, que se convirtio en su mentor y le introdujo en la comunidad fotografica parisina. Stettner fusiono la vertiente lirica francesa con la tradicion neoyorquina de fotografia socialmente comprometida para crear su propia version del humanismo.