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The Postmodern in Photography

Andy Warhol

●Electric Chair, 1964

●Marilyn

Pop Art- Ed Ruscha

●26 Gas Stations, 1962

●Standard Station, 1966

New Topographics

●From the exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape in 1975 in New York ●Inspired by the work of Edward Rusha in the 1960’s ●8 x 10 large format view cameras●Photographers from HE backgrounds

Bernd and Hilla Becher, 1970’s

Other exhibitors

●Robert Adams●Lewis Baltz●Joe Deal●Nicholas Nixon●Stephen Shore●Frank Gohlke (right)

UK- Keith Arnatt, Self Burial, 1969

Raymond Moore

Land Art

●Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970)

●Richard Long’s A circle in The Andes (1972)

Feminist photographers: Mary Kelly Interim (1984-89)

Theory based work

●Victor Burgin Office at Night, 1986- Edward Hopper painting

●Barbara Kruger, 1987

Critical practice, conceptual art

Sherrie Levine

●After Walker Evans, 1981●Rephotographed from a catalogue

●Raises questions about viewing context and the value of art

Simulacra and Simulation (1981) Jean Baudrilard,

●interaction between reality, symbols and society●“The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth-it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.” ●The real no longer exists- we only ever have copies

Jeff Wall Dead Troops Talk, 1992

Yinka Shonibare Diary of a Victorian Dandy (1998)

Gregory Crewdson Untitled (Ophelia from Twighlight) 2001

Postmodernism: Cindy Sherman Untitled 1981

Post Postmodernism: Yasumasa Morimura, 'To My Little Sister: for Cindy Sherman', 1998