Pictures Generation | Photography Movement | History of Photography | Photo Coordinates |
Pictures Generation is an important thread within the history of photography. It can be understood as a group of artists associated with the 1970s and 1980s and framed by Douglas Crimp’s 1977 exhibition Pictures in New York. This movement page brings together photographers, eras, and related contexts so readers can see how the approach developed, where it circulated, and which artists help define its historical position.
Barbara Kruger turned the visual language of magazines and advertising back against itself.
Read detailsBorn in New Jersey in 1954, Cindy Sherman made her Untitled Film Stills between 1977 and 1980, a series of sixty-nine black-and-white photographs that seem to belong to 1950s and 1960s Hollywood movies, film noir, and European art cinema.
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