Performance/Photography / Qualls, Larry

Qualls, Larry, «Performance/Photography». Performing Arts Journal, 17,  1, (1995), pp. 26

Abstract

During the past fifteen years photography as an art medium has virtually been defined by the apparently antithetical careers of Cindy Sherman and the Metro Pictures artists poised on one end of a balancing board, and that of Nan Goldin and the punk-sex documenters balanced on the other. Both artists are now at mid-career and apparently searching for new directions, based on the examples of their new works shown in New York in Winter 1995. But what becomes clear in examining these new works is the similarity of their ideas and goals, despite the apparently disparate paths they took to reach them. Their careers, in fact, are as much about the routes necessary to achieve celebrity in the art world as they are about artistic choices, unless such a choice is seen as the art work itself. And perhaps it is.

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ISSN: 07358393
DOI: 10.2307/3245693
URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3245693?origin=crossref
Language: EN
key: CLR4A654