Take place: photography and place from multiple perspectives

Abstract

"For a medium so potentially "disembodied" and transparent, photography can offer a unique capacity to concretize place, especially when used in art installations in which photographs may be assembled from numerous sources and locations. Take Place investigates this particular implementation of photography through various scholarly disciplines--art history, photography theory, the history of architecture and social geography--and through creative disciplines such as installation art, performance, architecture and especially multimedia projects. Take Place offers points of departure for the study of photography as it is deployed within other media." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Introduction / Helen Westgeest -- Artists' presentations / Pieter Laurens Mol, Batia Suter -- Photography as a sculptural medium in the work of Gordon Matta-Clark / Thomas Crow -- Photography as a Locus for destabilizing fundamentals: the multimedia installations of Philippe Van Snick / Hilde Van Gelder -- The concept of place in photography in multimedia artworks / Helen Westgeest -- The site of installation art : hovering between inner and outer places / Anja Novak -- Empty spaces haunted by presence: abstraction, defiguration and the uncanny in Gordon Matta-Clark's architecture photographs / Caroline van Eck -- Matter acts: de-forming space / Barbara Hooper -- Place, site, and memory in contemporary works of art: the art projects of Susan Meiselas, Ni Haifeng, and Stansfield/Hooykaas / Kitty Zijlmans -- Afterword / Douwe D. Breimer -- Contributors -- Credits of the images.