Title & Author:

Pandora's box : Jan Dibbets on another photography.

Publication:

Paris : Paris musées : Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, [2016]
©2016

Description:

259 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 32 cm

Notes:
"This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Pandora's Box: Jan Dibbets on Another Photography', presented at the Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris from 25 March to 17 July 2016"--Preliminary page.
Essays by François Michaud, Hubertus von Amelunxen, and Markus Kramer, and an interview with Jan Dibbets by Erik Verhagen.
Includes bibliographical references (page 258).
Stop taking photos! / Jan Dibbets in conversation with Erik Verhagen -- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / François Michaud -- La Soupe de Daguerre or how the ends touch the beginnings / Hubertus von Amelunxen -- Photographic objects / Markus Kramer.

Summary:

"The Musée d'Art Moderne has called on Jan Dibbets whose own contribution to Conceptual art was decisive for a reinterpretation of the history of photography from its invention up to the present day. Rejecting a conventional approach in what is his first venture into curating, Dibbets sets out to pursue the line he has been following since the 1960s ... Jan Dibbets has addressed this project radically. For him the power of the photographic medium lies in its specific characteristics and technical possibilities, rather than in its content and subject matter. At odds with the ongoing institutionalisation of the documentary image, he quotes Duchamp's reply to a question from Stieglitz in 1922: 'You know exactly what I think about photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography unbearable'. ('Can a Photograph Have the Significance of Art', MSS, no. 4, December 1922, New York). Breaking with the standard museum codes while adhering to a more or less chronological framework, the exhibition investigates the nature of the photograph in the digital age and photography's relationships with the visual arts. Although the discipline quickly became a competitor for painterly realism think Ingres it is the scientifically oriented photographers of the 19th century who emerge here as the true visionaries, paving the way for entire output of the 20th century. Nicéphore Niépce, Gustave Le Gray, Etienne-Jules Marey and Eadweard Muybridge are on show here, alongside other photographers less well known but for Dibbets just as crucial including Wilson A. Bentley and Etienne Léopold Trouvelot. Their direct successors are Karl Blossfeldt, Man Ray, Alexander Rodchenko, Paul Strand and Berenice Abbot in a line that continues on to Bruce Nauman. As an apologia for photography's reproducibility, the 'Pandora's Box' the discipline represents for Dibbets is a recipe for total freedom: side by side he shows two similar images, or a positive and its negative, or a copy of a famous work made by a later photographer. The high point of the exhibition is a selection of photographs by contemporary artists among them Thomas Ruff, James Welling, Wade Guyton, Seth Price whose recourse to digital technology compels an extension of the concept of what Markus Kramer calls the "photographic object"--[http://www.mam.paris.fr/en/expositions/exhibitions-pandoras-box].

ISBN:

9782759603343 (hardcover)
2759603342 (hardcover)

Subject:

Dibbets, Jan, 1941- Exhibitions.
Dibbets, Jan, 1941- Interviews.
Dibbets, Jan, 1941- Expositions.
Dibbets, Jan, 1941-
Photography, Artistic History Exhibitions.
Photography Scientific applications Exhibitions.
Photographie Applications scientifiques Expositions.
Photographie artistique Histoire Expositions.
Photographie scientifique Expositions.
Photography.
Photography, Artistic.
Photography Scientific applications.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
Essays.
exhibition catalogs.
Interviews.
History.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Dibbets, Jan, 1941- interviewee, curator.
Verhagen, Erik, interviewer.
Michaud, François, contributor.
Amelunxen, Hubertus von, contributor.
Kramer, Markus, 1973- contributor.
Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, host institution, issuing body.

Jan Dibbets on another photography

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293324
Call No.: BIB 238168
Status: Available