Why photography matters as art as never before - Fried, Michael (New Haven : Yale University Press, 2008)
Three beginnings -- Jeff Wall and absorption ; Heidegger on worldhood and technology -- Jeff Wall, Wittgenstein, and the everyday -- Barthes's Punctum -- Thomas Struth's museum photographs -- Jean-François Chevrier on the "tableau form" ; Thomas Ruff, Andreas Gursky, Luc Delahaye -- Portraits by Thomas Struth, Rineke Dijkstra, Patrick Faigenbaum, Luc Delahaye, and Roland Fischer ; Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno's film Zidane -- Street photography revisited : Jeff Wall, Beat Streuli, Philip-Lorca diCorcia -- Thomas Demand's allegories of intention ; "Exclusion" in Candida Höfer, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Thomas Struth -- "Good" versus "bad" objecthood : James Welling, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Jeff Wall.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-397) and index.
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