Andreas Gursky, Ruhr Valley, 1989.

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TitleRuhr Valley

Creator nameGursky, Andreas

Creator nationality/cultureGerman

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation date1989

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsChromogenic print

LocationUnknown

SubjectsLandscape photographyArt, German--20th centuryPhotography--Retouching

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Moving On

Andy Grundberg

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

A few months into 1991 I announced that I was leaving New York and ending my tenure as a critic and columnist for the Times to move to San Francisco, where I had been offered a job with the Friends of Photography. Although the organization had been the brainchild of Ansel Adams and operated a museum called the Ansel Adams Center, its mission was to support contemporary photography. I would...

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Andy Grundberg

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.239-259

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00262.016

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21735&redirecttoanchor=69970

Chapter subject tags:Ethnic identityArt, German--20th centuryRace in artPhotography--History--20th centuryPhotography--TechniqueSimpson, Lorna, 1960-Weems, Carrie Mae, 1953-

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