Prospect

Offering a survey of international explorations and discoveries, this catalogue documents the effort to identify from a global perspective the position of photography in contemporary art.With an emphasis upon the many and diverse applications of photography as a form of artistic expression, the present volume also examines the medium's perceptual possibilities as well as a variety of both critical and playful approaches to them.Major themes: people and the environment, landscapes, cities; technology and civilization; communication - staged reality; cameraless photography, new approaches to historical photography - reflections on old pictorial worlds; photography as fiction; digital processing - virtual images of a non-existent reality; text and or in lieu of photography; bodyself-presentation - portraits; and installations - objectslarge formats.