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Contemporary Photography from The Essl Collection curated by Sini Zein
07 Sept - 25 Nov 2007, shop catalogues about the exhibitions at essl.museum
Artists include Valerie Bélin, Jean Marc Bustamente, Gregory Crewdson, Judy Dater, Elger Esser, Nan Goldin, Andreas Gursky, Mike Kelley, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Brandon Lattu, Paul McCarthy, Miao Xiaochun, Tracey Moffat, Tim Roda, Thomas Ruff, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth, Sam Talor Wood.
Has
the relationship between information and manipulation in photography changed through the possibilities of digital image editing? What strategies of self-staging have
artists opted for from the 1960s until today? How do artists react to social developments and
changes (globalisation, mass tourism, media overkill, sexual equality,...)?
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100 works from classics to young art
of the
Essl Collection of contemporary
photography give an insight to the fine art medium
photography and its impact on objective vs. subjective presentation of pictorial realities, photography as a projection screen for social and political changes, experimental and cross-media photography,...
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foto: TOMOKO SAWADA OKAMI, from the series Costume, 2003.
C-Prints
80 x 100 cm.
Photo: Mischa Nawrata, Wien © Tomoko Sawada,
Sammlung Essl, Inv. Nr. 5032. (Tomoko Sawada, born 1977 in Kobe, presents in her self-portraits traditional and modern identities. With pose, clothing, hair and makeup she transforms into somebody else.)
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