Tracing Photography’s Rise in the Contemporary Art World

In a new book that combines art, history, and memoir, critic Andy Grundberg looks back at photography’s meteoric rise in the 1970s and ‘80s.

Tina Barney, Sunday New York Times, 1982. © Tina Barney

From its very outset, photography occupied a curious place within the world of art, its mechanical nature offering a new way of seeing and recording, while simultaneously confounding the status...

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