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Article: SUBJECTIVITY OVERLOAD.(documentary photography conference)
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- March 1, 2001
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Evaluating the Photography of Fact: Document, News, and Art, 1850-2000
New York University
New York, New York
December 7-9, 2000
An ambitious endeavor for a two-day event, New York University's (NYU) conference attempted the process of "Evaluating the Photography of Fact: Document, News, and Art, 1850-2000." Anne Hoy, conference organizer, explained that the first three such events (in 1995, 1998 and 1999) stressed the artistic side of the medium, examining work from Man Ray to Alfred Stieglitz to Andres Serrano. This most recent conference, Hoy said, was about "the rest," and was intended "not to delight and intrigue but to inform ...