Charlotte Cotton - The Photograph As Contemporary Art

This week I thought I would share with you all a book that I've been reading these last few days. For those of you who haven't read the book "Charlotte Cotton - The Photograph As Contemporary Art" you are missing out. The book tends to explore the art of how photographs are planned and produced and how photographs in general from a range of Photographers, fit into contemporary art.  Other notes that I can point out from this book include

• How the book uses formal text and combines a mixture of photographic imagery with history
• What this does is help the audience understand a but more of how an artist works
• One thing that is explored within this book is how the shifting of meaning within Photography can separated into various categories when explored. 

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One area in particular from this book that I thoroughly enjoyed was chapter four entitled "Something and Nothing". In this chapter of the book, Charlotte Cotton looks at how simple ordinary objects can be turned into a photographic subject matter through how they are placed in unique settings. 

One key element in this chapter of the book that caught my eye is the work of the Photographer James Welling and how he produces photographs of certain scenes over and over again from different angles to document a different use of the term perspective. He makes good use of showcasing how different an object can look once photographed from unique different angles and positions. 

                                              

                             James Welling - C47, 1981 from the series Drapes (1981 -89)

Resource's - Charlotte Cotton (2004): The Photograph as Contemporary Art; Thames and Hudson World of Art.

Image Source - http://jameswelling.net/categories/7