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Photography Reinvented

The Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker
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Photography Reinvented showcases thirty-five works by eighteen renowned artists who have transformed contemporary photography through bold experimentation and expansive concepts. Featuring luminaries from the Dusseldorf School like Andreas Gursky and Candida Hofer alongside innovators such as Cindy Sherman and Vik Muniz, the book explores the evolving aesthetics, techniques, and philosophies of photography. It highlights how photography’s role has shifted from documentary authenticity to a medium of redefinition and reinterpretation, presenting large-scale prints that challenge viewers' perceptions of space and reality.
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This book is ideal for enthusiasts of modern photography, contemporary art scholars, and anyone interested in the experimental and conceptual evolution of photographic art.

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Exhibition held at the National Gallery (U.S.), Washington, D.C., September 30, 2016-March 5, 2017, of a private collection of thirty-five works gathered by Meyerhoff and Becker produced by nineteen artists.

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Photography Reinvented brings together thirty-five works by eighteen critically acclaimed artists who, through innovative experimentation and visionary conceptual scope, have changed the course of contemporary photography.

From the seemingly objective, straightforward style and large-scale, vibrantly coloured prints of famed DΓΌsseldorf School photographers Andreas Gursky, Candida HΓΆfer, Thomas Struth, and Thomas Ruff to works by groundbreaking contemporary artists, including Thomas Demand, Vik Muniz, Cindy Sherman, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Catherine Opie, Photography Reinvented traces the aesthetic, technical, and philosophical shifts of the art form during a period of substantial change.

Some of the artists, such as Sherman and Demand, as well as Muniz and John Baldessari, explore the nature of photography as a medium that appropriates imagery from mass culture and other sources. Others, such as HΓΆfer and Struth, have reassessed iconic works of art and architecture, revealing the relevance of the past in our present lives.

All of these artists have made large-scale prints that create new and strangely destabilising experiences of space for their viewers. In an age when photography can no longer claim documentary veracity as its raison d'Γͺtre, Photography Reinvented examines the medium's redefinition, repurposing, and reimagining.

Exhibition schedule: National Gallery of Art, Washington September 30, 2016 - January 29, 2017

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Mitra Abbaspour, coeditor of Object:Photo: Modern Photographs: The Thomas Walther Collection, 1909-1949, praises Photography Reinvented for assembling exemplary images by artists who have elevated monumental colour photography within art institutions and the market, effectively redefining its position in contemporary art.

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ISBN: 9780691172873

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 04 October 2016

Country: United States

Imprint: Princeton University Press

Illustration: 71 color illus.

Contributors:

  • Contributions by Philip Brookman
  • Contributions by Andrea Nelson
  • Contributions by Leslie UreΓ±a
  • Contributions by Diane Waggoner

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 254.0mm

Height: 305.0mm

Weight: 1247g

Pages: 144

About the Author

Sarah Greenough is senior curator and head of the department of photographs, Philip Brookman is consulting curator, and Andrea Nelson and Diane Waggoner are associate curators of photographs, all at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Leslie Urea is assistant curator of photographs, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.

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