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Ruscha’s photographic books had a profound influence on the emergence of conceptual art in the 1960s and 1970s and on the work of contemporary artists and photographers. (Verlagstext).

Includes a biography and bibliography. Published on the occasion of the 2000 exhibition Wendy Ewald: Secret Games, Collaborative Works with Children 1969-1999 at the Addison Gallery for American Art, Andover, Massachusetts and Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (also traveled to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark, the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri). - From the publisher: "Secret Games offers a comprehensive overview of Ewald's collaborative works. The extraordinary scope and breadth of her longtime project is revealed here for the first time. In-depth texts by Ewald trace the evolution of her work and the ideas guiding it. Secret Games takes you on an unusual trip around the world, confronting you with fundamental cultural differences and the radicality of children's vision of the world. Secret Games challenges our concepts of authorship, art, childhood and adulthood, forcing the reader to re-examine familiar and comfortable assumptions. This beautiful and passionate book presents truly new and stunning images that transcend the artworld's often predictable approach to image-making." (Antiq. Borelli, Albuquerque, NM).

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Selected as one of the top ten books on photography in 1997 for the New York Times Book Review. Scarce. From the publisher: "Adam Fuss has emerged as one of the bold and truly creative artists utilizing photography today. Fuss's photograms clearly break from those of his predecessors, Man Ray, Moholy-Nagy, and Talbot, and while striking a chord of homage, the images redefine how and what we see in pictures, viscerally and intellectually. Like an eighteenth-century experimenter, Fuss utilizes organic and raw materials in an unusual approach, revealing spiritual and emotional process. Live snakes, the entrails of rabbits, eggs, cow liver, sperm, flowers, and stained glass circumscribe the vital, often mysterious energies emitted from these pictures."

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Text dt. - Andere Ausgabe: 2. Aufl. 1990.

Text dt. - “Mit kurzem Einführungstext zu einer Ausstellung von wahrscheinlich aus München stammenden Kalotypieporträts in der Galerie Kicken, Köln. Die Zuschreibung der Bilder ist nach heutiger Kenntnis m.E. nicht gesichert. Der Verbleib der Originale ist mir nicht bekannt.” (HCA, 13.10.1994).

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