By carefully conceptualising the domestic in relation to the self and the photographic, this book offers a unique contribution to both photography theory and criticism, and life-narrative studies. Jane Simon brings together two critical practices into a new conversation, arguing that artists who harness domestic photography can advance a more expansive understanding of the autobiographical.Exploring the idea that self-representation need not equate to self-portraiture or involve the human form, artists from around the globe are examined, including Rinko Kawauchi, Catherine Opie, Dayanita Singh, Moyra Davey, and Elina Brotherus, who maintain a personal gaze at domestic detail. By treating the representation of interiors, domestic objects, and the very practice of photographic seeing and framing as autobiographical gestures, this book reframes the relationship between interiors and exteriors, public and private, and insists on the importance of domestic interiors to understandings of the self and photography.The book will be of interest to scholars working in photographic history and theory, art history, and visual studies.

The Domestic Interior and the Self in Contemporary Photography (Routledge History of Photography)

Arts & Photography

Simon, Jane

History & Criticism

Routledge

Best known for his life-sized plaster sculptures of people engaged in everyday activities, George Segal (1924-2000) was one of the most prominent American artists of the twentieth century. This publication recounts the urban themes prevalent in Segal's sculptures over his 40-year career. George Segal: Street Scenesi s published concurrently with an exhibition at Wisconsin's Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. It includes essays by MMoCA curator Jane Simon and Director Emeritus of the Walker Art Center, Martin Friedman--a close friend and colleague of the artist.

George Segal: Street Scenes

Fleischman, Stephen

Friedman, Martin

Biographies & Memoirs

Madison Museum of Contemporary Art

Return to Function surveys contemporary artists who make functional objects that verge on "the designed"--from vehicles to clothes to mobile studio units--which happily confirm that the once-firm line between fine art and the applied arts is indeed dissolving. These artists--Jules De Balincourt, Claire Fontaine, François Curlet, Fabrice Hyber, J. Morgan Puett, Michael Rakowitz, Joe Scanlan, Franck Scurti, Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga and others--make objects that are simultaneously critical and practical. By choosing to create objects that meet utilitarian criteria, they show that artworks can be a part of the larger social, political and economic fabric. This volume features an in-depth discussion of seminal artists working in this vein, including Lucy Orta, Andrea Zittel and Jorge Pardo.

Return to Function

BARAK, AMI

Schwendener, Martha

A Tool Box of Paradoxes

Religion & Spirituality

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