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Tracing a crucial history of photoconceptual practice, this book focuses on an artistic community that formed in and around the young University of California San Diego, founded in 1960, and its visual arts department, founded in 1967.

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"This is a valuable introduction to the work of these individuals and, beyond that, a reasoned assessment of the nature and qualities of this aspect of an important art movement... Summing Up: Highly recommended." CHOICE

Table of Contents
FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
LENDERS TO THE EXHIBITION

1 THE USES OF PHOTOGRAPHY
2 "THERE WAS NO RADICALIZATION....IT WAS NORMAL FOR US"
3 VARIOUS SMALL ETHNOFICTIONS OF COASTAL CALIFORNIA
4 DOCUMENTS AND DOCUMENTARY

REMEMBERING RECORDING REPRESENTING
CHECKLIST OF THE EXHIBITION
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
CONTRIBUTORS
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
STAFF
INDEX
IMAGE CREDITS

The Uses of Photography

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    A Hardback by Jill Dawsey, Pamela M. Lee, Benjamin Young

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 21/09/2016
      ISBN13: 9780520290594, 978-0520290594
      ISBN10: 0520290593
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      History of art

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Tracing a crucial history of photoconceptual practice, this book focuses on an artistic community that formed in and around the young University of California San Diego, founded in 1960, and its visual arts department, founded in 1967.

      Trade Review
      "This is a valuable introduction to the work of these individuals and, beyond that, a reasoned assessment of the nature and qualities of this aspect of an important art movement... Summing Up: Highly recommended." CHOICE

      Table of Contents
      FOREWORD
      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
      LENDERS TO THE EXHIBITION

      1 THE USES OF PHOTOGRAPHY
      2 "THERE WAS NO RADICALIZATION....IT WAS NORMAL FOR US"
      3 VARIOUS SMALL ETHNOFICTIONS OF COASTAL CALIFORNIA
      4 DOCUMENTS AND DOCUMENTARY

      REMEMBERING RECORDING REPRESENTING
      CHECKLIST OF THE EXHIBITION
      SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
      CONTRIBUTORS
      BOARD OF TRUSTEES
      STAFF
      INDEX
      IMAGE CREDITS

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