The Photograph as Contemporary Art by Charlotte Cotton

Author:Charlotte Cotton
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2020-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

162 Anthony Haughey, Minefield, Bosnia, 1999

163 Ziyah Gafic, Quest for ID, 2001

The artistic conventions used to translate social events and the consequences of history into visual forms are now well established. British artist Paul Seawright’s (b. 1965) series Hidden, a mournful narrative about the futility of war, was produced in 2002, when he was one of the artists commissioned by the Imperial War Museum in London to respond to the conflict in Afghanistan.[164] In Valley, Seawright displays a twisting hill road, littered with artillery shells, in a compositional manner reminiscent of the earliest photographs of conflict zones by British photographer Roger Fenton (1819–1869), whose images of the Crimean War included an April 1855 photograph of a desolate landscape with an arrangement of cannon balls in the aftermath of battle.

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