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Water Towers

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Description: Water Towers

TitleWater Towers

Creator nameBecher, BerndBecher, Hilla

Creator nationality/cultureGerman

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation date1972

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsUnknown

LocationUnknown

SubjectsConceptual art--United StatesBlack-and-white photography

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Getting the Concept

Description: How Photography Became Contemporary Art: Inside an Artistic Revolution from Pop to...

How Photography Became Contemporary Art: Inside an Artistic Revolution from Pop to the Digital Age

Because a great deal of postminimal art was inaccessible or ephemeral, artists photographed it to show what it looked like and to preserve its memory. The photodocumentation soon came to be thought of as integral to the work itself—a kind of trace of the real thing or event and a real work of art in its own right.

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PublisherYale University Press

Copyright© 2021 by Andy Grundberg

Related print edition pages: pp.53-65

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00262.005

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Chapter subject tags:Graham, Dan, 1942-Conceptual art--United StatesDuchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968LeWitt, Sol, 1928-2007Baldessari, John, 1931-2020

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