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Elizabeth Graves reviews The introduction to The Edge of Vision: the Rise of Abstraction in Photography by Lyle Rexer
Writer / Elizabeth Graves
Lyle Rexer, the author of the sumptuously illustrated 2002 book Photography’s Antiquarian Avant-Garde: The New Wave in Old Processes has a new book out on abstraction, and it is delightful and informative.
The introduction to The Edge of Vision: the Rise of Abstraction in Photography, (published in 2009 by Aperture) invokes Talbot with a retrospective, conceptual viewpoint. Rexer describes his first experience viewing an original Talbot print, and remarks that Talbot’s works “held a privileged position. Not just because they came first, but because they came before photographic seeing was codified, before a consensus had developed about what a photograph should like like and what (and how) it ought to represent.”
We (all those of us reading this on the Internet) live in cultures where photographs are ubiquitous, and where the newest method of presenting an image is always the “correct” method. In 2010, we have the full history of photography to draw our techniques and inspiration from, yet our audience is often confused by images that do not match the look and feel of the advertising
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Based on the highly successful course at the School of Visual Arts developed by the author, this book provides a comprehensive approach to the critical understanding of photography through an in-depth discussion of fifteen photographs and their contexts – historical, generic, biographical and aesthetic. This book presents an intensive course in looking at photographs, open to undergraduates and general audiences alike. Rexer argues that by concentrating on fifteen carefully chosen works it is possible to understand the history, development and contemporary situation of photography.
Looking to images by photographers such as Roland Fischer, Nancy Rexroth and Ernest Cole, The Critical Eye is the only book to address the totality of issues involved in photography, from authorial self-consciousness to the role of the audience. Its subjects are not limited to art photography but include vernacular images, commercial genres and anthropology. With every chapter it seeks to link the history of photography to current practice. This highly illustrated and beautiful book provides a much-needed introduction to image production.
Lyle Rexer is a writer, curator, critic and columnist, as well as a course leader at the School of Visual Arts. As well as being the author of numerous books
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Interview with Lyle Rexer
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