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Performing for the camera : edited by Simon Baker and Fiontán Moran ; with an essay by Jonah Westerman.

Author(s): Moran, Fiontán | Baker, Simon

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Main Title: Performing for the camera
Author(s): Baker, Simon
Moran, Fiontán
Publisher: London : Tate Publishing, 2016.
Collation: 240 p. : ill. (some col.)
27 cm.
Summary: Performing for the camera' examines how the photograph has both documented and developed our understanding of performance since the invention of the photographic medium. It engages with both the serious business of art and performance and the humour and improvisation of posing for the camera. Featuring many of the most compelling and experimental photographers in history, it explores the works by artists such as Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama, Nadar, Merce Cunningham, Charles Ray, Boris Mikhailov, Samuel Fosso, Cindy Sherman, Keith Arnatt and Masahisa Fukase. Edited by curator Simon Baker, this book provides fresh insight into the inter-relationship between performance and photography. With over 300 illustrations, this is the definitive publication on two of the most popular and intriguing art forms of our time. Exhibition: Tate Modern, London, UK (18.02-12.06.2016).
ISBN: 9781849764001
Dewey Class: 770
Contents: Performing for the camera / Simon Baker -- Documenting performance -- Staging/collaboration -- Photographic actions -- Performing icons -- Public relations -- Self/portrait -- Performing real life -- Between you and me: photographs of performance by Shunk-Kender 1960-1977 / Fiontán Moran -- Original sin: performance, photography and self-knowledge / Jonah Westerman.
Language: English
Subject: Photography, Artistic -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Photography, Artistic -- 21st century -- Exhibitions.
BRN: 7176

Notes

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Performing for the Camera, held at Tate Modern, London, February 18-June 12, 2016.

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