Zoe Strauss
Subtitle: 10 years
By: edited by Peter Barberie ; with essays by Peter Barberie, Sally Stein, and Zoe Strauss
Contributors: Barberie, Peter, 1970-; Stein, Sally; Philadelphia Museum of Art
Publisher: Philadelphia Museum of Art, in association with Yale University Press, New Haven, CT
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780300179774
Subjects: Artistic Photography; Exhibitions
Other titles: 10 years; Ten years
Description: "With little formal training as a photographer or artist, Zoe Strauss (b. 1970) founded the Philadelphia Public Art Project in 1995 with the aim of exhibiting art in nontraditional venues. Five years later, she began using photography as the most direct means of representing her chosen subjects. Zoe Strauss: 10 Years offers a midcareer assessment of Strauss's achievement to date, and the first full account of her celebrated ten-year project, beginning in 2001, to exhibit her photographs under an elevated section of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia.  Strauss's troubling and sometimes touching images focus primarily on American working-class experience, to convey what she calls "an epic narrative that reflects the beauty and struggle of everyday life." Generously illustrated, this book includes nearly 200 photographs--135 of them published here for the first time--along with images that document her I-95 exhibitions. With essays by Peter Barberie and Sally Stein, plus a text by the artist herself, a bibliography, and a chronology, this is the most definitive publication to date about this important young artist."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Philadelphia Museum of Art, Jan. 14-April 22, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-261) and index.
Table of contents: title: 30 to 40  -- Zoe Strauss; title: Zoe Strauss under I-95  -- Peter Barberie; title: How do we look?: counter-intuitive prompts and probes in Zoe Strauss's resurgent social documentary photography  -- Sally Stein; title: Chronology  -- Samantha Gainsburg and Grace Ambrose; title: Bibliography  -- Samantha Gainsburg and Grace Ambrose; title: I-95.10, photographs -- Zoe Strauss.