First of three films about the term 'Conceptual Photography' (second one http://youtu.be/Q8DQdWHqRvY ). The critics Lucy Soutter and John Roberts talk about its relation to the art movement of the late 60s, Conceptual Art, meanwhile the artist John Hilliard, who was both described as a Conceptual artist in the 60s and 70s and is still making photographs today, explains his working method.
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Thanks to John Hilliard, Lucy Soutter and John Roberts.
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◇ What is Conceptual Photography? (part 2) - YouTube
Should conceptual photography be easy to understand? The second of three films (see the third here http://youtu.be/9TvpxG9fLqo ). The critics Lucy Soutter, John Roberts and Sean O'Hagan trace the post 1970s history of a type of art photography that is anti-subjective and anti-humanist. The artist James Casebere describes how even in the 1970s the tradition had begun to evolve. Meanwhile today, artist Suzanne Mooney says she welcomes ambiguity in her work and wants to challenge our assumptions about the way photography represents reality.
◇ What is Conceptual Photography? (part 3) - YouTube
Sean O'Hagan suspects that the point of conceptual photography is to be mysterious and that some non art photography is excluded from the market for no good reason. Louise Clements, Lucy Soutter and the artists Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin only use the term reluctantly. Broomberg and Chanarin and O'Hagan disagree about the artists' work 'The Day Nobody Died', a critique of embedded photojournalism.
