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Photography and Sculpture: The Art Object in Reproduction

  • Edited by Sarah Hamill and Megan R. Luke

    Ever since the mid-nineteenth century, when the new medium of photography was pressed into service to illustrate sculpture, photographs of sculptural objects have directed viewers as to what, in the course of ambling around a sculpture, was the single perfect moment to stop and look. What is the photograph’s place in writing the history of sculpture? How has it changed according to culture, generation, critical conviction, and changes in media? Photography and Sculpture: The Art Object in Reproduction studies aspects of these questions from the perspectives of sixteen leading art historians. Their essays consider iconic photographs, archival collections, new and forgotten technologies, and conceptual challenges in photographing three- dimensional forms that have directed changing historical and stylistic attitudes about how we see, write about, and narrate histories of sculpture. Chapters on such varied topics as picturing Conceptual art, manipulating sacred images in India to be non- photographs, and framing Roman art with an iPad illustrate the latent visual and narrative powers and ever-expanding potential of these images of sculpture.

    Sarah Hamill is assistant professor of modern and contemporary art at Oberlin College. Megan R. Luke is assistant professor of art history at the University of Southern California.

    “Overall, the book is thought-provoking and readable, and the interdisciplinary approach makes it appropriate for libraries that support programs in art history, photography, aesthetics, archaeology, visual culture, and architecture.”
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    “The anthology has been effectively and cohesively organized to present the photography of sculpture as a development whose end has yet to be written.”
    Burlington magazine 


    328 pages
    7 x 10 inches
    19 color and 81 b/w illustrations
    ISBN 978-1-60606-534-1
    paperback

    Getty Publications
    Imprint: Getty Research Institute
    Series: Issues & Debates

    2017

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