Uncertain histories : accumulation, inaccessibility, and doubt in contemporary photography /

• Main Author: Albers, Kate Palmer (συγγραφέας.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
• Subjects: Φωτογραφία > Κριτική; Φωτογραφία, Καλλιτεχνική > 20ός αι.; Φωτογραφία, Καλλιτεχνική > 21ος αι.; Τέχνη > Ιστορία

"The compulsion to dwell on history--on how it is recorded, stored, saved, forgotten, narrated, lost, remembered, and made public--has been at the heart of artists' engagement with the photographic medium since the late 1960s. Uncertain Histories considers some of that work, ranging from i...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Cultivating uncertainty
• Displacements : Gerhard Richter's Atlas
• "Around this nucleus a large empty space" : Dinh Q. Lê's Mot coi di ve
• Historical reconstruction and doubt : Christian Boltanski's Les Archives de C.B. 1965-1988
• After the fact : Joel Sternfeld's On this site
• The performative landscape : Ken Gonzales-Day's Hang trees
• Conclusion.