The Postmodern in Photography
Andy Warhol Electric Chair, 1964
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Marilyn
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Pop Art- Ed Ruscha 26 Gas Stations, 1962
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Standard Station, 1966
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New Topographics From the exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape in 1975 in New York ●Inspired by the work of Edward Rusha in the 1960’s ●8 x 10 large format view cameras ●Photographers from HE backgrounds ●
Bernd and Hilla Becher, 1970’s
Other exhibitors Robert Adams ●Lewis Baltz ●Joe Deal ●Nicholas Nixon ●Stephen Shore ●Frank Gohlke (right) ●
UK- Keith Arnatt, Self Burial, 1969
Raymond Moore
Land Art Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970)
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Richard Long’s A circle in The Andes (1972)
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Feminist photographers: Mary Kelly Interim (1984-89)
Theory based work Victor Burgin Office at Night, 1986- Edward Hopper painting
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Barbara Kruger, 1987
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Critical practice, conceptual art
Sherrie Levine After Walker Evans, 1981 ●Rephotographed from a catalogue ●
Raises questions about viewing context and the value of art
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Simulacra and Simulation (1981) Jean Baudrilard, interaction between reality, symbols and society ●“The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth-it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.” ●The real no longer exists- we only ever have copies ●
Jeff Wall Dead Troops Talk, 1992
Yinka Shonibare Diary of a Victorian Dandy (1998)
Gregory Crewdson Untitled (Ophelia from Twighlight) 2001
Postmodernism: Cindy Sherman Untitled 1981
Post Postmodernism: Yasumasa Morimura, 'To My Little Sister: for Cindy Sherman', 1998