Binding: Hardcover
Description: How a generation of women artists is transforming photography with analogue techniques. Beginning in the 1990s a series of major artists imagined the expansion of photography intensifying its ideas and effects while abandoning many of its former medium constraints. Simultaneous with this development in contemporary art however photography was moving toward total digitalization. Lateness and Longing presents the first account of a generation of artists focused on the work of Zoe Leonard Tacita Dean Sharon Lockhart and Moyra Davey who have collectively transformed the practice of photography using analogue technologies in a dissident way and radicalizing signifiers of older models of feminist art. All these artists have resisted the transition to the digital in their work. Instead in what amounts to a series of feminist polemics they return to earlier incomplete or unrealized moments in photography's history gravitating toward the analogue basis of photographic mediums. Their work announces that photography has become not obsolete but late opened up by the potentially critical forces of anachronism. Through a strategy of return of refusing to let go the work of these artists proposes an afterlife and survival of the photographic in contemporary art a formal lateness wherein photography finds its way forward through resistance to the contemporary itself.
Title: Lateness And Longing On The Afterlife Of Photography
Author(s): Baker George
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226035116
Pages: 520 Pages, 276 Color Plates
Publication Date: 5/23/2023
Series: Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Collection
Category: Photography & Photographs