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Article: Ecurring images: historical photography as contemporary art.
- Article from:
- C: International Contemporary Art
- Article date:
- February 1, 1999
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A full eighteen years has passed since artist Sherrie Levine rephotographed works by master photographers Walker Evans, Eliot Porter and Andreas Feininger and claimed the results for her own. Since then, appropriating and restaging photographs have become highly popular postmodern art practices, giving both artist and audience a certain critical distance from which to ponder how, in Victor Burgin's words, "the photograph abstracts from, and mediates, the actual." More recently, curators presenting historical work in contemporary contexts are drawing past and present into dialogue. Yet, although this practice has become relatively common in the past few years (witness ...