WHARTON ARTS NETWORK (WhAN)

Please join us for the 3-part Zoom lecture series:

Contemporary Photography:
From Documentary Style to Constructed Truths


Candida Hofer, Trinity College Library Dublin, 2004

This series covers major trends in Contemporary Photography (1981 to the present) by exploring the vision and practice of over 30 photographers. We will discuss the significant impact that the Dusseldorf School (or Becher school) had on a number of photographers. We will review ground-breaking works that were only made possible through the arrival of large-format color printing and digital manipulation.

The series starts out with photographers who aimed at capturing the truth in an entirely objective style, followed by a review of others who have devoted their practice to documenting our ever-changing man-altered landscape, and on to contemporary photographers who go to great lengths to construct truths and illusions.

We will look at works by dozens of contemporary photographers whose work is held in major museum collections and whose works are regularly sold at major photography galleries and fairs as well as at auction houses:  Ruff, Struth, Hofer, Vitali, Gursky, Polidori, Burtynsky, Misrach, Wall, Sherman, Morimura, Crewdson, and many more.