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Dan Graham, one of America's most important contemporary artists, is best known today for his sculptural works and installations. His photographic works are generally not so well known, despite the fact that he first became famous for his photographic series, Homes for America, pictures of typical American suburbia. To this day the theme of architecture and its surfaces represents an extremely important facet of his work, as does the question of what role it plays in postmodern society and in the context of everyday culture. This publication presents new photographs by Dan Graham, taken in the context of a study trip with the architecture faculty of Columbia University, together with a selection of original photographs from the Homes for America series. The new images exhibit stark similarities to the old pictures, because they were taken in the same locations, in the same deserts of suburban streets and housing that Graham had photographed in the 1960s. This creates a fascinating reference system of repetitions and differences, in terms of both the temporal and the spatial, that asks questions of the viewer about architecture, public space, and their function in society.

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Book category Books in English The arts Photography & photographs Individual photographers

• Full title: Dan Graham's New Jersey
• Author: Mark Wigley, Mark Wasiuta
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 128
• EAN: 9783037782590
• ISBN: 3037782595
• ID: 05037360
• Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers
• Weight: 888 g
• Dimensions: 195 × 264 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. November 2011

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