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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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

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