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»Against the Econoclasm«This was the title of DER SPIEGEL's announcement of TRUE PICTURES? on 6.11.2021. At the beginning of the twentieth century, North American photography was seen as groundbreaking in the development of the medium's artistic visual language. In the 1980s, however, this pioneering role was challenged by developments in Europe. Young artists no longer considered North American photography as a role model, and as a result it gradually moved out of the spotlight. TRUE PICTURES? now remedies this situation by presenting thirty American and Canadian photographers from three generations who, in part influenced by the advent of digital photography, saw and still see themselves challenged in particular by political and social upheavals. The list of themes is by no means short: the aftermath of the Vietnam War, the AIDS crisis, racism, feminism, questions around gender and sexuality, identity politics, and so on. The urgency of these problematic situations prompts the artists to assume highly polarized positions, both in terms of narrative and politically. By following subjective and transmedial approaches and exhausting the technical possibilities of the medium, they almost inevitably touch on topics such as the often cited »Bilderflut« (image overload) - a phenomenon to which they respond with a targeted critique on the excesses of the »digital age« Artists: 1st generation: Nan Goldin, Rodney Graham, Anthony Hernandez, Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince, Allan Sekula, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Carrie Mae Weems, James Welling 2nd generation: Vikky Alexander, Roy Arden, Gregory Crewdson, Liz Deschenes, Stan Douglas, Zoe Leonard, Ken Lum, Collier Schorr, Lorna Simpson, Stephen Waddell, Christopher Williams 3rd generation: Walead Beshty, Anne Collier, LaToya Ruben Frazier, Martine Gutierrez, Ayana V. Jackson, Owen Kydd, Elad Lassry, Deana Lawson, Meryl McMaster, Trevor Paglen, Xaviera Simmons, Taryn Simon Exhibitions:Sprengel Museum Hannover, 6/11/2021 - 13/2/2022Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, 12/3 - 20/6/2022

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Book category Books in German Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik Kunst Fotografie, Film, Video, TV

• Full title: True Pictures?
• Subtitle: Contemporary Photography from Canada and the USA
• Language: German
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• EAN: 9783864423703
• ISBN: 3864423708
• ID: 37637066
• Publisher: Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH
• Weight: 1904 g
• Dimensions: 326 × 243 × 33 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. May 2022

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