Publisher's Description
“At the moment, photography is in a phase of
change in which an altered conception of the
documentary factor is emerging. It is not so much
a matter of the portrayal or representation of
reality, but rather of an artistically well-grounded
idea of the world.” So says Thomas Weski in
his essay in this big, bold, and truly essential
compendium of documentary and almost-documentary
photographs. Featured artists include
Diane Arbus, Tina Barney, Laurenz Berges, Dirk
Braeckman, David Claerbout, Luc Delahaye, Rineike
Dijkstra, William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Patrick
Faigenbaum, Stephen Gill, Paul Graham, Andreas
Gursky, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Scott McFarland,
Hans van der Meer, Boris Mikhailov, Martin Parr,
Judith Joy Ross, Thomas Ruff, Taryn Simon, Alec
Soth, Heidi Specker, Jules Spinatsch, Thomas Struth,
Larry Sultan, Juergen Teller, Wolfgang Tillmans
and Jeff Wall. Among the many fine features of
this book are several paper changes, a section on
the illustrations and artists’ biographies.