This lavishly illustrated, accessible survey presents the work of nearly 120 international artists at the forefront of the boom in photography, among them Elina Brotherus, Tacita Dean, Luc Delahaye, Alec Soth, Jens Ullrich and Michael Wesely. Each artist is introduced by a brief essay, followed by four pages of their superbly reproduced work. This is a valuable and forward-looking reference book for photographers, collectors and photography lovers everywhere.
Preface
Acknowledgments
The Aesthetics of Photography
Roy Arden
The Atlas Group/Walid Raad
Seung Woo Back
Olivo Barbieri
Yto Barrada
Valerie Belin
Richard Billingham
Sabine Bitter/Helmut Weber
Rut Blees Luxemburg
Anuschka Bloommers/Niels Schumm
Sonja Braas
Dirk Braeckman
Sergey Bratkov
Adam Broomberg/Oliver Chanarin
Elina Brotherus
Stefan Burger
Gerard Byrne
Claude Closky
coltectif fact
Kelli Connell
NataLie Czech
Tacita Dean
Luc Delahaye
Charlotte Dumas
Lukas Einsele
Ruud van Empel
JH Engstrom
Roe Ethridge
Charles Freger
Stephen Gill
Anthony Goicolea
Marnix Goossens
GRAM
Aneta Grzeszykowska
Beate GiJtschow
Maria Hahnenkamp
Jitka Hanzlova
Naoya Hatakeyama
Annika von Hausswolff
Jose Antonio Hernandez-Diez
Takashi Homma
Juul Hondius
Marine Hugonnier
Michael Janiszewski
Sanna Kannisto
Izima Kaoru
Rinko Kawauchi
Pertti Kekarainen
Jean-Pierre Khazem
losif Kiraly
Joachim Koester
Aglaia Konrad
Justine Kurland
Luisa Lambri
An-My Le
PaulAlbert Leitner
Jochen Lempert
Sze Tsung Leong
Zbigniew Libera
Nate Lowman
Florian Maier-Aichen
Fabian Marti
Taiji Matsue
Hellen van Meene
Jean-Luc Moulene
Zwelethu Mthethwa
Multiplicity
Oliver Musovik
Wangechi Mutu
Jean-Luc Mylayne
Simone Nieweg
Mika Ninagawa
Arno N ollen
Simon Norfolk
Ohio
Gabor Osz
Peter Piller
Martin Polak/Lukas Jasansky
Marco Poloni
Barbara Probst
Gonzalo Puch
Clunie Reid
Rosangela Renn6
Xavier Ribas
John Riddy
Torbjern Redland
Ricarda Roggan
Guadalupe Ruiz
Anri Sala
Frank van der Salm
Diana Scheunemann
Bruno Serralongue
Shirana Shahbazi
Ann-Sofi Siden
Santiago Sierra
Alec Soth
Heidi Specker
J ules Spinatsch
Erik Steinbrecher
Eve Sussman
Philippe Terrier-Hermann
Ana Torfs
Janaina Tschaipe
Jens Ullrich
Useful Photography
Santos R Vasquez
Lidwien van de Ven
Qingsong Wang
Michael Wesely
Yang Fudong
Takashi Yasumura
Kimiko Yoshida
Biographies of Authors and Editors
GLossary
Picture Credits