1. Make a postmodern photograph
2. Write an explanation why you think your photograph(s) are postmodern.

Post to moodle your image(s) and an argument why they are postmodern. If you made darkroom prints, please scan them


Consider Ch7 (Revived and Remade) of PACA, Ch3 Fictive Documents of WAP, and the PDF handout (Photography and the Postmodern p148-162). Think of the attitudes and strategies taken by postmodernist artists.

Quotes:

• (p191 PACA)"- Rather than being evidence of the photographer's originality or statements of authorial intention, photographs were seen as signs that acquired their significance or value from their place within the larger system of social and cultural coding"
  
  
• " meaning of any image was not of its author's making or necessarily under his or her control, but was determined only by reference to other images or signs."
  
  
• "the works offer experiences that hinge on our memory's stock of images: family snaps, magazine advertising, stills from films, surveillance and scientific studies, old photographs, fine art photographs, paintings and so on."
  
  
• "as soon as the first photographs were made, all photographic practice thereafter was created and understood in comparison with and relation to earlier images"
  
  
• "knowingly shape the subjects that intrigue them, conscious of the heritage of the imagery into which they are entering, and to see the contemporary world through the pictures we already know"
  
  

Strategies:

• Appropriation of type, styles -- Cindy Sherman, Morimura Yasumasa, Nikki S. Lee
  
  
• Reworking, remaking preexisting imagery (iconic, personal, vernacular, popular and anonymous...etc) -- Jemima Stehli, Vik Muniz, Collier Schorr, John Divola, Richard Prince, Tacita Dean
  
  
• Renegotiating the terms through (fictional) archive creation, fictive narrative -- Zoe Leonard+Cheryl Dunye, Walid Raad, Joan Fontcuberta