Photography?

What is Photography?

Something to remind us places we´ve been to?
Gilbert Garcin, Changer le monde

Just one moment?
Michael Wesely , Potsdamer Platz 1997-1999
Exposition period: two years

Something we suddenly find?
Walter de María, Lightning Fields. 1974.
400 metal posts capturing lightning in New Mexico

Something we must remember?
Edward Weston, Pepper, 1930

A very important thing?
Alfred Stieglitz, Photograph of Fountain
by Marcel Duchamp, 1917

A proof?
Andy Goldsworthy, Tree´s soul


Beauty?
Cindy Shermann, Untitled n.299

Leaving a mark?
Joseph Kosuth, One and three chairs, 1965


The exact image of that we see?
Boyd Webb, Blessed 1985

Something really serious?
Paul&Gilles, Mort d´Adonis, 1999

One unique image?
Sherrie Levine, after Walker Evans

An explanation?
Bernd y Hilla Becher,
Anonymous Sculptures, 1970


Something permanent?
David Buckland, Ice Texts, 2004.
Projecting texts on the wall of a glaciar

A reminder of the invisible?
Juan Santos, Words that keep abysses

An original work?
Thomas Ruff, Cassiny. Images from NASA web page.

That thing we don´t need to explain?
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970
Land Art in Utah.


An image that won´t ever be repeated?
Jean Louis Marie Eugène Durieu , 1850.
Same image was drawn, three years later,

by Eugène Delacroix.


1 comentario:

  1. Vaya compendio de clásicos (y mi admirado Stieglitz) . Y los comentarios ¡¡¡ Buenísimo.

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