Aperture 125 - Fall 1991
The Encompassing Eye: Photography as Drawing
As the central role photography has played in contemporary art and culture is increasingly recognized, it becomes important to examine its links to other visual media. Considering the parallels between this machine-aided medium and drawing, the prototypical art of the hand, may throw light on the nature and uses of both.
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Issue Details
Format: Paperback / softback
Publication date: 1992-04-01
Measurements: 9.59 x 11.4 x 0.26 inches
ISBN: 9780893814885
Table Of Contents
The Encompassing Eye: Photography as Drawing
Decoding the Cipher of Reality: Fox Talbot in His Time
By Robert Harbison
Talbot Today: Changing Views of a Complex Figure
By Michael Gray
Talbot, Daguerre, and the Crucible of Drawing
By Weston Naef
Tracing the Line: Art and Photography in the Age of Contact
By Merry Foresta
Photographs by Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy, Theodore Roszak, and Brassai
Conservation of Matter: Robert Rauschenberg’s Art of Acceptance
By Donald J. Saff
Into a World of Color: An Interview with David Hockney
By Graham Nash
Collapsing Hierarchies: Photography and Contemporary Art
By Carter Ratcliff
Photographs by Chuck Close, David Hockney, and Sol LeWitt
The Shape of Seeing: Ellsworth Kelly’s Photographs
Landscapes of Form: Photographs and statement by Toshio Shibata
The Encompassing Eye: Photography as Drawing
By Charles Hagen
Photographs by Michael Spano, Jan Groover, Nancy Hellebrand, Judy Fiskin, Vik Muniz, James Casebere, Zeke Berman, John Coplans, Harry Callahan, Lee Friedlander, Ray K. Metzker, Susan Shaw, Aaron Siskind, and Peter Campus
People and Ideas
Review of Lee Friedlander: Nudes, by Vicki Goldberg
Review of David Salle at Robert Miller Gallery, by Donald Kuspit