The Focal Press Companion to the Constructed Image in Contemporary Photography
Edited By Marni Shindelman, Anne Massoni
ISBN 9780367580537
Published September 30, 2020 by Routledge
318 Pages
This compendium examines the choices, construction, inclusions and exemptions, and expanded practices involved in the process of creating a photograph. Focusing on work created in the past twenty-five years, this volume is divided into sections that address a separate means of creating photographs as careful constructs: Directing Spaces, Constructing Places, Performing Space, Building Images, and Camera-less Images. Introduced by both a curator and a scholar, each section features contemporary artists in conversation with curators, critics, gallerists, artists, and art historians. The writings include narratives by the artist, writings on their work, and examinations of studio practices. This pioneering book is the first of its kind to explore this topic beyond those artists building sets to photograph.
Foreword
Introduction: The State of Photography, The Status of Photographs
Building Images, Building Spaces
Madeline Yale Preston
Single Artist Spotlights
Jason DeMarte
Letha Wilson
Mark Dorf
Eva Stenram
Anthony Goicolea
Interviews
Adam Magyar
Darren Harvey-Regan
Hank Willis Thomas
Ruth Van Beek
Constructing Places
Stacy J. Platt
Single Artist Spotlights
Shirana Shahbazi
Susana Reisman
Liliana Porter
Interviews
Wang Ningde
Susan kae Grant
Sensations of Place: Artist Altered Environments
Liz Wells
Single Artist Spotlights
Adam Ekberg
Noémie Goudal
Matt Siber
Interviews
Laurent Millet
Thomas Jackson
Schematic Traces: Systems of Making
Kate Palmer Albers
Single Artist Spotlights
Natalie Czech
Shizuka Yokomizo
Pato Hebert
Interviews
Penelope Umbrico
Mishka Henner
Camera-Less: Photographic Fidelity (and Infidelity)
Katherine Ware
Single Artist Spotlights
Farrah Karapetian
Shimpei Takeda
Brittany Nelson
Interviews
Aspen Mays
Liz Deschenes
Performing for the Camera: Postmodernism,
Antimodernism, and the Performative Photograph
William J. Simmons
Single Artist Spotlights
Renée Cox
Ou Zhihang
Stacey Tyrell
Interviews
Lily McElroy
Hillerbrand+Magsamen
Editors
Marni Shindelman’s work investigates proximity and touch in digital culture. She is half the collaborative team of Larson & Shindelman. Their ongoing project, Geolocation, uses publicly available embedded GPS information in Twitter updates to track the locations of user posts and make photographs to mark the location in the real world. She is an assistant professor at the University of Georgia, Lamar Dodd School of Art. Prior to that she taught for ten years at the University of Rochester. Her work has been in exhibitions at Crystal Bridges Museum, solo exhibitions Blue Sky in Portland, United Photo Industries in Brooklyn, the Contemporary Arts Center Las Vegas. Selections have been shown in group shows at the Light Factory in Charlotte, the FotoFestiwal in Poland, the Houston Center for Photography, Baltimore Museum of Art, the Moscow International Biennale in Russia, and Conflux Festival in NYC. Shindelman’s projects have been featured in Wired Magazine, GUP Magazine, The Picture Show from NPR, The Dish, PetaPixel, Fast Company, Gizmodo, Hyperallergic, the New York Times, Hostshoe Magazine, the Washington Post, Utne Reader, Flavorwire, Frieze Magazine, the British Journal of Photography, the BBC News Viewfinder, and on the radio program Marketplace Tech Report.
Anne Leighton Massoni is the Program Director of Photography at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Prior to teaching at UArts she held positions at Marshall University, Cornell University, Tyler School of Art, Washington College, Memphis College of Art, and Monmouth University. She has exhibited nationally and internationally including the H. F. Johnson Museum in New York, The Print Center in Philadelphia, The Sol Mednick Gallery in Philadelphia, NIH in Washington, DC, the Allen Sheppard Gallery in New York City, Newspace Gallery in Portland, Rayko in San Francisco, the East End Film Festival in London, England, the 2013 International Mobile Innovation Screening in New Zealand and Australia, and IlCantinonearte Teatri e Galleria del Grifo in Montepulciano, Italy. Recent publications of her work include ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art and SpostaMenti, published by MuseumsEtc in England. She serves as the Vice Chair of the National Board of the Society for Photographic Education.
