Photography After Conceptual Art [Paperback]

Photography After Conceptual Art presents a series of original essays that address substantive theoretical, historical, and aesthetic issues raised by post-1960s photography as a mainstream artistic medium 

• Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2011
• Appeals to people interested in artist's use of photography and in contemporary art  
• Tracks the efflorescence of photography as one of the most important mediums for contemporary art 
• Explores the relation between recent art, theory and aesthetics, for which photography serves as an important test case 
• Includes a number of the essays with previously unpublished photographs
• Artists discussed include Ed Ruscha, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Douglas Huebler, Mel Bochner, Sherrie Levine, Roni Horn, Thomas Demand, and Jeff Wall

1. Introduction: Photography After Conceptual Art (Diarmuid Costello, University of Warwick and Margaret Iversen, University of Essex).

2. Auto-Maticity: Ruscha and Performative Photography (Margaret Iversen, University of Essex).

3. Ed Ruscha, Heidegger, and Deadpan Photography (Aron Vinegar, Ohio State University).

4. Subject, Object, Mimesis: The Aesthetic World of The Bechers' Photography (Sarah E. James, University of Oxford).

5. Exit Ghost: Douglas Huebler's Face Value (Gordon Hughes, Rice University).

6. Productive Misunderstandings: Interpreting Mel Bochner's Theory of Photography (Luke Skrebowski, Middlesex University).

7. Roni Horn's Icelandic Encyclopedia (Mark Godfrey, Tate Modern).

8. Thomas Demand, Jeff Wall And Sherrie Levine: Deforming 'Pictures' (Tamara Trodd, University of Cambridge).

9. Almost Merovingian: On Jeff Wall'slã'