Photography has become an increasingly pervasive medium of choice in contemporary art practice and is even employed at times by artists who do not necessarily consider themselves to be photographers. How did this come to be? The Last Picture Show will address the emergence of this phenomenon of artists using photography by tracing the development of conceptual trends in postwar photographic practice from its first glimmerings in the 60s in the work of artists such as Bernd &amp; Hilla Becher, Ed Ruscha and Bruce Nauman, to its rise to art-world prominence in the work of the artists of the late 70s and early 80s including Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince and Cindy Sherman. Intended as a major genealogy of the rise of a still-powerful and evolving photographic practice by artists, the checklist will include a wide array of works examining a range of issues: performativity and photographic practice; portraiture and cultural identity; the formal and social architectonics of the built environment; societal and individual interventions in the landscape; photography's relationship to sculpture and painting; the visual mediation of meaning in popular culture; and the poetic and conceptual investigation of visual non-sequiturs, disjunctions and humorous absurdities. Bringing together a newly commissioned body of scholarship with reprints of important historical texts, The Last Picture Show seeks to define the legacy that has produced a rich body of photographic practice in the art world today.

The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982

Arts & Photography

WEISS, David

Graham, Dan

Beuys, Joseph

Baldessari, John

Dibbets, Jan

Nauman, Bruce

Flood, Richard

Anselmo, Giovanni

Gronnert, Stefan

Lee, Pamela

Batchen, Geoffrey

Fischli, Peter

Bochner, Mel

Charlesworth, Sarah

Export, Valie

Acconci, Vito

Ader, Bas Jan

Boltanski, Christian

Broodthaers, Marcel

Kruger, Barbara

Oppenheim, Dennis

Lewitt, Sol

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Walker Art Center

Featuring established and emerging photographers including Thomas Ruff, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Beat Streuli, Thomas Struth, Nobuyoshi Araki, Anna and Bernhard Blume, Baltasar Burkhard, Gnter Farg, Andreas Gursky, Candida Hafer, Axel Htte, Martin Liebscher, Inge Rambow, and Jarg Sasse, XL-Photography presents the photography collection of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, assembled by Jean-Christophe Amman, Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt. XL-Photography presents close to 200 large-format works by the 14 aforementioned photographers, with pieces that range from the ironic pictorial narratives of Anna and Bernhard Blume to Htte's landscape images; from Candida Hafer's interior shots to Araki's provocative erotic stagings; from Ruff's deconstructions of subjectivity to Streuli's urban views. Much more than a simple collection catalogue, this smartly designed and lavishly illustrated book presents some of the essential positions taken in photographic art over the past ten years.

XL-Photography: Art Collection Neue Borse

Hütte, Axel

GURSKY, ANDREAS

Ammann, Jean-Christophe

Araki, Nobuyoshi

Sasse, Jörg

Förg, Günther

Snauwaert, Dirk

Bernhard

Liebscher, Martin

Rambow, Inge

Scherf, Jone Elissa

Lorenz, Gunter

Photography & Video

Hatje Cantz Publishers

This beautiful limited-edition artists' book from the duo of Peter Fischli and David Weiss consists of lush garden photographs from several seasons The result is a meditation on the natural world An exceptional creation. The Swiss team of Fischli/Weiss are known in both art and photographic circles for their photographic representations of the everyday and the banal in contemporary life. Their work has been seem recently by American audiences at both the Walker Art Center Minneapolis, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Fischli Weiss, Garten

Oktagon

Fragen and Blumen (German Edition)

History & Criticism

JRP|Editions

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