Post-Photography: The Artist with a Camera

About this book

The real world is full of cameras; the virtual world is full of images. Where does all this photographic activity leave the artist-photographer? Post-Photography tries to answer that question by investigating the exciting new language of photographic image-making that is emerging in the digital age of anything-is-possible and everything-has-been-done-before. Found imagery has become increasingly important in post-photographic practice with the internet serving as a laboratory for a major kind of image-making experimentation. But artists also continue to create entirely original works using avant-garde techniques drawn from both the digital and analogue eras. This book is split into six sections Something Borrowed Something New Layers of Reality Eye-Spy Material Visions Post-Photojournalism and All the World Is Staged which cover the key strategies adopted by 53 of the most exciting and innovative artist-photographers of the 21st century drawn from all over the world.