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Photography between Poetry and Politics: The Critical Position of the Photographic Medium in Contemporary Art

http://www.aah.org.uk/conference/2007session07.php

The aim of this session is to examine a recurrent question in the recent literature on the place of the photographic medium in contemporary art. It concerns the multiformity of the use and ways the photograph manifests itself in diverse artistic practices today. Central to the debate is the question whether photography has a hybrid character because it can be part of entirely different multimedia/mixed media works of art, such as the combination of photographs and text, photography in painting, slides in video installations, digital photographs in computer art, photographs in installation art, etc. Or does the photo-image nowadays mainly serve as a useful tool to make a renewed kind of ‘tableaux’, often marked by a rather noncommittal and ‘poetic’ visual imagery?
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An-My Lê was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1960 and came to the United States in 1975 as a refugee. She holds a BAS (1981) and MS (1985) from Stanford University and an MFA from Yale University School of Art (1993). Recent solo exhibitions of her work include 29 Palms at Murray Guy, New York; Small Wars at PS1/MOMA Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York; and Vietnam at Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco.