From early amateur snapshots to today's advanced digital images, photography has been the ideal medium for documenting people's lives. This bold book explores the complex and varied ways in which five contemporary photographers—Tina Barney, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, and Larry Sultan—draw inspiration for their artistic creation from their own everyday experiences.
Each of these artists has developed a deeply personal, changing, and fascinating vision of their own lives. The works range from Tina Barney's carefully staged compositions depicting her loved ones in affluent New England circles to Nan Goldin's unfiltered images, which reveal intimate moments, often with raw honesty that can sometimes be unsettling. Sally Mann has made her children and their environment her central subject, as has Larry Sultan in his portraits of his parents. Philip-Lorca diCorcia offers a photographic narrative with an almost novelistic dimension, covering—like the other artists in the book—nearly twenty years of work.
So the Story Goes is structured in the form of portfolios, bringing together magnificent color reproductions, with around twenty photographs per artist. Accompanied by an introductory essay tracing the evolution of autobiographical storytelling in photography and texts dedicated to each of the creators, the book analyzes how these images manage to recount a life and compose its narrative.
Art Institute of Chicago, 2006
128 pages
11.3 × 8.1 inches
ISBN: 0300114117
From early amateur snapshots to today's advanced digital images, photography has been the ideal medium for documenting people's lives. This bold book explores the complex and varied ways in which five contemporary photographers—Tina Barney, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, and Larry Sultan—draw inspiration for their artistic creation from their own everyday experiences.
Each of these artists has developed a deeply personal, changing, and fascinating vision of their own lives. The works range from Tina Barney's carefully staged compositions depicting her loved ones in affluent New England circles to Nan Goldin's unfiltered images, which reveal intimate moments, often with raw honesty that can sometimes be unsettling. Sally Mann has made her children and their environment her central subject, as has Larry Sultan in his portraits of his parents. Philip-Lorca diCorcia offers a photographic narrative with an almost novelistic dimension, covering—like the other artists in the book—nearly twenty years of work.
So the Story Goes is structured in the form of portfolios, bringing together magnificent color reproductions, with around twenty photographs per artist. Accompanied by an introductory essay tracing the evolution of autobiographical storytelling in photography and texts dedicated to each of the creators, the book analyzes how these images manage to recount a life and compose its narrative.
Art Institute of Chicago, 2006
128 pages
11.3 × 8.1 inches
ISBN: 0300114117
