The promise of photography
Subtitle: the DG Bank collection
By: edited by Luminita Sabau, with Iris Cramer and Petra Kirchberg ; essays by Boris Groys, Rosalind E. Krauss, and Paul Virilio ; texts by Carl Aigner ... [et al.].
Contributors: Sabau, Luminita.; Cramer, Iris.; Kirchberg, Petra.; DG Bank.; Hara Bijutsukan (Tokyo, Japan)
Publisher: Prestel
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Munich; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
Subjects: DG Bank -- Photograph collections -- Exhibitions; Photography, Artistic -- Exhibitions; Photograph collections -- Germany -- Frankfurt am Main -- Exhibitions
Description: "The dynamic innovations that have taken place in photography in recent years are documented in some 212 original and important works by 135 artists, selected for reproduction in this volume."--BOOK JACKET. "The extraordinary power of photography coupled with its versatile interaction with other genres has provided the impetus to amass one of the largest private photographic collections of our time, owned by Germany's DG BANK."--BOOK JACKET. "In addition to "classical" photography, the photographic works of painters and sculptors are the focus of this unique collection, in which the diverse trends in contemporary art are concentrated and readily identifiable. Artists such as Gunther Forg, Gerhard Richter, Robert Rauschenberg, Magdalene Jetelova, and John Chamberlain have regarded photography as an indispensable supplement to their own pictorial language. Photography is also employed in conjunction with new media, however, by such artists as Anton Corbijn, Valie Export, and Marie-Jo Lafontaine. John Baldessari and Barbara Kruger use photography to examine the mass media critically. Excellent examples of digital techniques and conceptual movements complement this outstanding collection."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition ... held at the following venues: Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, October 1998-January 1999; Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, March-May 1998; Centre National de la Phortographie, Paris, June-August 1999; Akademie der Künste, Berlin, January-March 2000; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, January-March 2001"--Colophon.