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The Postmodern in Photography


Andy Warhol Electric Chair, 1964

Marilyn


Pop Art- Ed Ruscha 26 Gas Stations, 1962

Standard Station, 1966


New Topographics From the exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape in 1975 in New York ●Inspired by the work of Edward Rusha in the 1960’s ●8 x 10 large format view cameras ●Photographers from HE backgrounds ●


Bernd and Hilla Becher, 1970’s


Other exhibitors Robert Adams ●Lewis Baltz ●Joe Deal ●Nicholas Nixon ●Stephen Shore ●Frank Gohlke (right) ●


UK- Keith Arnatt, Self Burial, 1969


Raymond Moore


Land Art Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970)

Richard Long’s A circle in The Andes (1972)


Feminist photographers: Mary Kelly Interim (1984-89)


Theory based work Victor Burgin Office at Night, 1986- Edward Hopper painting

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Barbara Kruger, 1987

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Critical practice, conceptual art


Sherrie Levine After Walker Evans, 1981 ●Rephotographed from a catalogue ●

Raises questions about viewing context and the value of art


Simulacra and Simulation (1981) Jean Baudrilard, interaction between reality, symbols and society ●“The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth-it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.” ●The real no longer exists- we only ever have copies ●


Jeff Wall Dead Troops Talk, 1992


Yinka Shonibare Diary of a Victorian Dandy (1998)


Gregory Crewdson Untitled (Ophelia from Twighlight) 2001


Postmodernism: Cindy Sherman Untitled 1981


Post Postmodernism: Yasumasa Morimura, 'To My Little Sister: for Cindy Sherman', 1998


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