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Christopher Williams: the production line of happiness

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    Production line of happiness


Abstract

"Chronologically examining the nature of his art within the context of mass media and photojournalism, this handsome volume charts the thirty-year career of the artist and photographer Christopher Williams (b. 1956). Featuring 100 color illustrations, the book also includes a trio of essays by authors Mark Godfrey, Roxana Marcoci, and Matthew S. Witkovsky that demonstrate how Williams, with high craft and a critical eye, deliberately engages yet reinterprets the conventions of photojournalism, picture archives, and commercial imagery through uncanny mimicry. Committed to the history of photography as a medium of art and intellectual inquiry, Williams's current series tackles the interplay of photography and cinema, upending viewer expectations and the role of spectacle"--

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    Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2014

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    • 9780865592643
    • 030020390X
    • 9780865592636
    • 0865592632
    • 0865592640
    • 9780300203905

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    • Pages 3-166 are Book. Pages 170-183 are Supplement. Pages 189-194 are Cover
    • Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title co-organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. At the Art Institute of Chicago, January 25-May 18, 2014; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, August 2-November 2, 2014; and Whitechapel Gallery, London, April-June 2015.

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