This lavishly illustrated, accessible survey presents the work of nearly 120 international artists at the forefront of the boom in photography, among them Elina Brotherus, Tacita Dean, Luc Delahaye, Alec Soth, Jens Ullrich and Michael Wesely. Each artist is introduced by a brief essay, followed by four pages of their superbly reproduced work. This is a valuable and forward-looking reference book for photographers, collectors and photography lovers everywhere.

Preface

Acknowledgments

The Aesthetics of Photography

Roy Arden

The Atlas Group/Walid Raad

Seung Woo Back

Olivo Barbieri

Yto Barrada

Valerie Belin

Richard Billingham

Sabine Bitter/Helmut Weber

Rut Blees Luxemburg

Anuschka Bloommers/Niels Schumm

Sonja Braas

Dirk Braeckman

Sergey Bratkov

Adam Broomberg/Oliver Chanarin

Elina Brotherus

Stefan Burger

Gerard Byrne

Claude Closky

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Kelli Connell

NataLie Czech

Tacita Dean

Luc Delahaye

Charlotte Dumas

Lukas Einsele

Ruud van Empel

JH Engstrom

Roe Ethridge

Charles Freger

Stephen Gill

Anthony Goicolea

Marnix Goossens

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Aneta Grzeszykowska

Beate GiJtschow

Maria Hahnenkamp

Jitka Hanzlova

Naoya Hatakeyama

Annika von Hausswolff

Jose Antonio Hernandez-Diez

Takashi Homma

Juul Hondius

Marine Hugonnier

Michael Janiszewski

Sanna Kannisto

Izima Kaoru

Rinko Kawauchi

Pertti Kekarainen

Jean-Pierre Khazem

losif Kiraly

Joachim Koester

Aglaia Konrad

Justine Kurland

Luisa Lambri

An-My Le

PaulAlbert Leitner

Jochen Lempert

Sze Tsung Leong

Zbigniew Libera

Nate Lowman

Florian Maier-Aichen

Fabian Marti

Taiji Matsue

Hellen van Meene

Jean-Luc Moulene

Zwelethu Mthethwa

Multiplicity

Oliver Musovik

Wangechi Mutu

Jean-Luc Mylayne

Simone Nieweg

Mika Ninagawa

Arno N ollen

Simon Norfolk

Ohio

Gabor Osz

Peter Piller

Martin Polak/Lukas Jasansky

Marco Poloni

Barbara Probst

Gonzalo Puch

Clunie Reid

Rosangela Renn6

Xavier Ribas

John Riddy

Torbjern Redland

Ricarda Roggan

Guadalupe Ruiz

Anri Sala

Frank van der Salm

Diana Scheunemann

Bruno Serralongue

Shirana Shahbazi

Ann-Sofi Siden

Santiago Sierra

Alec Soth

Heidi Specker

J ules Spinatsch

Erik Steinbrecher

Eve Sussman

Philippe Terrier-Hermann

Ana Torfs

Janaina Tschaipe

Jens Ullrich

Useful Photography

Santos R Vasquez

Lidwien van de Ven

Qingsong Wang

Michael Wesely

Yang Fudong

Takashi Yasumura

Kimiko Yoshida

Biographies of Authors and Editors

GLossary

Picture Credits