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The Beauty of a Social Problem: Photography, Autonomy, Economy

By Michaels , Walter Benn

Book information

Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN
9780226210261, 9780226210438, 022621043X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
8 MB (7911174 bytes)
Pages
illustrations (black and white, and colour)\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Photography--Political aspects;Photography--Social

Description

Bertolt Brecht once worried that our sympathy for the victims of a social problem can make the problem's 'beauty and attraction' invisible. In this work, Walter Benn Michaels explores the effort to overcome this difficulty through a study of several contemporary artist-photographers whose work speaks to questions of political economy. Although he discusses well known figures like Walker Evans and Jeff Wall, Michaels's focus is on a group of younger artists, including Viktoria Binschtok, Phil Chang, Liz Deschenes, and Arthur Ou.

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