Mediums · 01

Photography

The camera did not simply record modern life. These artists changed what a photograph could claim to be.

01Cindy ShermanIdentity as a role the camera can manufacture.02Diane ArbusThe ordinary becomes difficult to categorize.03Eugène AtgetThe city becomes an archive before it disappears.04Gordon ParksThe camera joins formal elegance to a demand for justice.05Nan GoldinA life photographed from inside it.06Robert MapplethorpeClassical control meets subjects polite culture tried to exclude.07Walker EvansThe vernacular world is allowed to speak plainly.08Wolfgang TillmansA photograph can be monumental, disposable, abstract or intimate.