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Impure Vision
Impure Vision

Impure Vision

American Staged Art Photography of the 1970s

PHOTOGRAPHY

176 Pages, 5.75 x 8.5

Formats: Cloth, EPUB, Mobipocket

Cloth, $49.95 (US $49.95) (CA $54.95)

Publication Date: May 2013

ISBN 9789187351006

Rights: US, CA, AU, NZ & SAM

Nordic Academic Press (May 2013)

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Overview

American staged art photography is the focus of this unique, in-depth study. Offering a new methodological strategy for viewing photographs, this fascinating account analyzes the work of four of the leading names in this new genre—Les Krims, Duane Michals, Arthur Tress, and Lucas Samaras—and applies new perspectives to 1970s art photography. As it sheds fresh light on the four artists’ critiques of purist ideals, it also looks closely at their efforts to transcend the limitations of the purely visual effect of photography. Not only does this book tell the history of American staged photography in broad terms by drawing on theories and methods new to the field, but it also presents the latest approaches to photography history and theory.

Author Biography

Moa Goysdotter is a researcher and lecturer in photography history and theory in the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences at Lund University in Sweden.