Publisher's Description
With the ascent of multimedia art, feminist and postcolonial theory, and the collapse of the art
gallery’s “white walls,” the 1970s saw countless upheavals and shifts in the paradigms ofWestern
art—upheavals that were recorded by some of today’s finest photographers. The mingling of art
and socio-political change in the 1970s is a theme throughout this superb volume, a groundbreaking
consideration of one decade’s art through the lenses of its greatest photographers. The 70s
includes about ten photographs by each of the selected artists: Alberto García-Alix, Allan Sekula,
Ana Mendieta, Anders Petersen, Carlos Pazos, Christian Boltanski, Cindy Sherman, Claudia Andujar,
David Goldblatt, Douglas Huebler, Ed van der Elsken, Eugene Richards, Fina Miralles, Gabriele and
Helmut Nothhelfer, Hans-Peter Feldmann, J.D. Okhai Ojeikere, Karen Knorr, Kohei Yoshiyuki,Malick
Sidibé, Sophie Calle,Victor Burgin,Viktor Kolár andWilliam Eggleston. Alongside this parade of
great photography, The 70s also includes two illustrated essays by relevant artists of the time, as
well as presentation texts of the participating artists and a selection of classic writings on photography
published in this decade, by Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, John Berger, Allan Sekula and
Victor Burgin. Finally, it supplies a detailed chronology of socio-political transformations and the
evolution of photography, illustrated with original documents and news media reproductions.