Photography as Concept is one of my biggest inspirations books

Photography as concept is an amazing photography book. The first time I saw it was in the library of Weissensee Art School of Berlin. It was amazing, I got so much inspiration from this book for my art projects. Later I met an art student from the art university of Berlin, and I recommended this book to her as well.

Natacha Lesueur

Photography as Concept Artist list:

Down below, I’m writing the names of the artists who were mentioned in this book:

Vanessa Beecroft (1)
Maura Biava (1)
Peter Bömmels (D)
Martin Brandt /
Andreas Wolf /
Martin Schmidl Florian Haas (D)
Daniele Buetti (CH)
Patrick Van Caeckenbergh (B)
Claude Closky (F)
Hanne Darboven (D)
Cor Dera (NL)
Willie Doherty (IRL)
Felix Gonzalez-Torres ICUBA)
Alex Hartley (GB)
Helgard Haug /
Marcus Droß /
Daniel Wetzel (D)

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Sam Samore (USA)
Andreas Schmid (D)
Miron Schmückle (RO / DI
Uwe H. Seyl (D)
Bernard Voita (CHI)
Gilian Wearing (GB)
eorg Winter (D)
Guo Gu Zheng (CHI)
Hui Zhuang (CHI)

Few Pages from the book (Photography as Concept)

photography as Concept. Cantz

Photography as Concept (Greeting)

The 150th birthday of photography in 1989 was one reason why the International Foto-Triennale was founded. The exhibition gave contemporary art photography a new forum. This kind had not existed in Germany until then. New perspectives and points of view for international art photography were put on show. The Foto-Triennale, one of Esslingen’s most important cultural events, attracts international attention and praise. Previous concepts and key themes for the exhibition have identified trends for the development of contemporary art beyond the field of photography.

The first Foto-Triennale in 1989 provided a broad survey of “Art with Photography”. In 1992 the exhibition focused on “Invented Realities”. It showed that photography is an important interface in the transition to computer art. In 1995, works were shown as a documentation of everyday and individual ways of life. This was under the title “Close to Life”.

The early seventies the social sciences adopted an intellectual approach that was already familiar to philosophers. This view based on action-theory was like a change of paradigm. The processual character of actions and cognition is found in recent sociological, and particularly psychological, work. This is helpful in assessing positions within contemporary art. At first glance, the paradigm of “contextual and processual action” seems to sit uncomfortably with a photographic record or work of art.

Dr. Jürgen Zieger Mayor

LINKS:

Andreas Gursky
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Fashion Photographer in Berlin