Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review“
Lateness and Longing is a work of great originality and a significant contribution to the history and theory of art, as well as to the criticism of contemporary photography. Through his close critical readings, Baker presents exhaustive critical accounts of four important artists, revealing how the figure of lateness achieves a kind of intimacy within their practices and developing an original conceptual vocabulary for the philosophy of photography.” -- D. N. Rodowick, author of An Education in Judgment: Hannah Arendt and the Humanities
“Multifaceted, innovative, and provocative,
Lateness and Longing provides an original account of photographic anachronism, working through its cultural, social, aesthetic, and philosophical dimensions.” -- Sabine Kriebel, author of Revolutionary Beauty: The Radical Photomontages of John Heartfield
“Photography and art criticism are not obsolete but they are in eclipse, and that is where George Baker finds them. In the shadows, there is redemption and the promise of unpredictable reemergence. Baker sifts through the situation like a twenty-first-century Baudelairean, in the company of some of the most compelling contemporary artists. To find what? Revolutionary cause? Melancholy consolation? Something of both, along with a deeper understanding of what the past does for us, and with us, today.” -- David Campany, author of On Photographs
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Lateness and Longing
1. You See I Am Here After All: Zoe Leonard
2. Film and Other Fatigues I: Tacita Dean
3. Film and Other Fatigues II: Tacita Dean
4. The Photographic Echo: Sharon Lockhart
5. The Absent Photograph: Moyra Davey
Afterword: Late Criticism
Notes
Index
