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On Photography

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By Susan Sontag A new edition of Susan Sontag’s groundbreaking critique of photography—its problems, politics, and possibilities.“To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed,” Sontag writes in the opening pages of On Photography, which went on to influence generations of theorists, film critics, and readers everywhere. Originally published in the 1970s, her groundbreaking collection remains uncannily prescient and profoundly precise.With her singular searching eye, and her refusal ...
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Photographers on Photography

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By Henry Carroll Through a carefully curated selection of quotations, images and interviews, Photographers on Photography reveals what matters most to the masters.With enlightening text by Henry Carroll, author of the internationally bestselling Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs series, you'll discover how the giants of the genres developed their distinctive visual styles, the core ideas that underpin their practice and, most importantly, what photography means to you. Laurence...
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The End of Photography
Judy Fiskin
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On view June 4 – Aug 20

The Social Scene

Highlighting MOCA’s photography collection, this exhibition traced themes of post-war social documentary photography made between the 1930s and 1980s through comprehensive bodies of work by Diane Arbus, Brassai, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Helen Levitt, Danny Lyon, Roger Mertin, John Pfahl, and Garry Winogrand.
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Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film

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Edited with text by Britt Salvesen, Staci Steinberger. Foreword by Michael Govan. Text by Kim Beil, Hye Jean Chung, Carolyn L. Kane, Briar Levit, Anuradha VikramThis timely volume, Digital Witness, examines the impact of Photoshop and other tools of digital manipulation, tracing simultaneous developments in photography, graphic design and visual effects over roughly five decades.Beginning in the 1970s and 1980s, advances in computer science and engineering made it possible to design, build an...
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On view July 1 – Feb 20

Making Space: Recent Photography Acquisitions

This exhibition highlights a selection of photographs that have recently joined MOCA’s renowned collection, including major gifts and both contemporary and historical purchases.
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Around 1979 - Intractable & Untamed: Documentary Photography around 1979

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In 1979, Roland Barthes in his book Camera Lucida set the stage for the critical understanding of photography as a medium capable of reevaluating the relationship of aesthetics and ethics and distinguished between two different approaches to photography - the aesthetic and the documentary. Extensively illustrated, this comprehensive group exhibition catalog takes Barthes's notion of the intractable reality of the photograph as the starting point for an examination of the aesthetic, ethical, p...
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Seeing Science: How Photography Reveals the Universe

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By Marvin Heiferman and Scott Kelly Seeing Science offers an insightful and reader-friendly collection of essays and pictures about photography’s role in visualizing science and building human knowledge―from micro to macro levels and everything in between.Photography and science have long been intertwined, helping to shape the way we look at the world. Scientists use photography as a way to gather information, explore, and learn, but just as important, photography is also used to promote scie...
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Instructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now

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By Carmen Winant Instructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now is a timely visual essay by artist and writer Carmen Winant. An investigation of a genre of photographs Winant calls ‘instructional’, it asks: can photographs teach, in and of themselves? If so, how might we look to them to demonstrate new possibilities, from social organising to self-actualisation?Alternating between found images and text-based observations, Winant delves into this new category of images through her own col...
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Photography, A Feminist History

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By Emma Lewis This feminist retelling of the history of photography puts women in the picture—and, more importantly, behind the camera!In ten thematic, chronological sections, Tate Modern curator Emma Lewis explores the vital role women artists have played in shaping the ever-evolving medium of photography. Lewis has compiled work from more than 200 different women and nonbinary photographers along with short essays on 75 different artists, many informed by her interviews with the subjects. F...
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The Social Scene: Ralph R. Parsons Foundation Photography Collection

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Essays by curator Cornelia H. Butler, Max Kozloff, A.D. Coleman, Liz Kotz, and Emily Aer. Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Social Scene: The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Photography Collection, MOCA, Los Angeles June 4, 2000- August 20, 2000. A photograph can serve as as both witness and catalyst, art object and call to action. In this catalog of a pivotal exhibition of works from the Ralph R. Parsons Photography Collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, photogr...
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Ecstatic Truth: The Photography of Florian Maier-Aichen (MOCA Focus Series)

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By Rebecca Morse This catalogue accompanied the exhibition Ecstatic Truth: The Photography of Florian Maier-Aichen, on view at MOCA June – September 2007. Florian Maier-Aichen’s photographic work portrays natural, industrial, and cultural landscapes with stylized eccentricity. Employing tropes of documentary photography in unconventional ways, Maier-Aichen creates sublime images rich with reference and allusion. While his richly hued photographs of the California coast, the Alps, and other lo...
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A Short History of Photography

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By Walter Benjamin Benjamin’s early attempt to understand a nascent technology, remarkably prescient and topical even today. “The illiterate of the future … will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.” So declared Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) in his essay A Short History of Photography, originally published in the periodical Literarische Welt in 1931. Beginning with the early experiments of Louis Daguerre and Nicéphore Niépce and concluding with ...
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Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography

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By Susan Bright From basic sustenance to savory repasts, food awakens the senses and touches both private and public life. It can be political, religious, aspirational, commercial, creative, symbolic, national, and regional. Food’s complexity of form and meaning―and the fact that it’s often at hand―have made it a much-photographed subject throughout the history of photography. Interest in both food photography and food as a subject has risen in recent years, and this is the first book to cove...
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On view Sept 20 – Feb 15

The Social Landscape: Selections from the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Photography Collection

The Social Landscape: Selections from the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Photography Collection presents works by Diane Arbus, Danny Lyon, and Garry Winogrand. A 1995 acquisition by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the collection includes over 2,000 works assembled by Robert Freidus, a leading New York dealer and collector. Included in the forty-one black-and-white photographs on display is a selection of prints from Winogrand's series Women are Beautiful (c. 1975), shot…
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Leroy Grannis: Surf Photography of the 1960s and 70s

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By Steve Barilotti. Edited by Jim Heimann. A fresh re-edition of LeRoy Grannis’s sold-out Collector’s Edition, this collection gathers his most vibrant surf photography—from the perfect wave at San Onofre to dramatic wipeouts at Oahu’s famed North Shore. One of the key image-makers in surfing history, Grannis also covers the emerging surf lifestyle, from “surfer stomps” and hordes of fans at surf contests to board-laden woody station wagons along the Pacific Coast Highway. Taschen, 2018 Hard...
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On view Dec 3 – Mar 24

Sigmar Polke Photoworks: When Pictures Vanish

This comprehensive retrospective of the artist's photography-based works examined the critical role that photography plays in his larger oeuvre; approximately 120 pieces from the mid-'60s to the present, including the key series Paris, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Goya "Die Alten" and new, just-completed series. Accompanied by a catalogue; traveled to Site Santa Fe and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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Will the Metric System Change Photography?
Kay Shuper
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On view Oct 10 – Jan 9

Not Painting: Some Views from the Permanent Collection

In unusual groupings that reveal the changing role of photography, more than 40 works are featured, ranging from photographic pieces by James Alinder, Margaret Bourke-White, Robert Frank, Helen Levitt, Naomi Savage, Garry Winogrand and Max Yavno to a diverse variety of contemporary photography by Cindy Bernard, Barbara Ess, Judy Fiskin, Gunther Forg, Larry Johnson, Jack Pierson, Laurie Simmons, Mitchell Syrop and James Welling, among others.
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On view Feb 11 – May 26

Social Documents: Selections from the Permanent Collection

Highlighting MOCA’s photography collection, this exhibition traced themes of post-war social documentary photography made between the 1930s and 1980s through comprehensive bodies of work by Diane Arbus, Brassai, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Helen Levitt, Danny Lyon, Roger Mertin, John Pfahl, and Garry Winogrand.

On Photography

Photographers on Photography

The End of Photography

Judy Fiskin

The Social Scene

Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film

Making Space: Recent Photography Acquisitions

Around 1979 - Intractable & Untamed: Documentary Photography around 1979

Seeing Science: How Photography Reveals the Universe

Instructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now

Photography, A Feminist History

The Social Scene: Ralph R. Parsons Foundation Photography Collection

Ecstatic Truth: The Photography of Florian Maier-Aichen (MOCA Focus Series)

A Short History of Photography

Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography

The Social Landscape: Selections from the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Photography Collection

Leroy Grannis: Surf Photography of the 1960s and 70s

Sigmar Polke Photoworks: When Pictures Vanish

Will the Metric System Change Photography?

Kay Shuper

Not Painting: Some Views from the Permanent Collection

Social Documents: Selections from the Permanent Collection