Charlotte Cotton, La fotografia come arte contemporanea, new edition, 2021

This new edition, enriched with an unpublished chapter, radically revised and enriched with more than one hundred images, revisits the arguments of the previous volume, placing them in dialogue with the most recent practices. By expanding the selection of works presented, Cotton celebrates a new generation of artists who are radically modifying photography to make it an increasingly conscious protagonist of the current social, political and cultural landscape. This book, which over the years has become an indispensable international critical reference, offers an introduction to the extraordinary variety of contemporary art photography. In the essay, Charlotte Cotton examines specific themes, such as narrative in photographic art, the recording of the insignificant detail of everyday existence or intimate life, the use of photography in conceptual art, the prevalence of a detached objective aesthetic, and photography as a privileged repository of personal, social, and cultural values in an image-saturated world. More than 170 photographers are presented through their work: established artists, such as Isa Genzken, Jeff Wall, Sophie Calle, Thomas Demand, Nan Goldin and Sherrie Levine; alongside emerging talents, such as Sara VanDerBeek, Rashid Johnson, Anne de Vries and Amalia Ulman. This new edition, enriched with a new chapter, radically reworked and enriched with over one hundred images, revisits the arguments of the previous volume, putting them into dialogue with the most recent practices. Expanding the selection of works presented, Cotton celebrates a new generation of artists who are radically modifying photography to make it an increasingly conscious protagonist of the current social, political, and cultural landscape. With 273 images in color and black and white.