The Photography of Invention: American Pictures of the 1980s

Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1989. Softcover. Blue paper wraps with stiff color pictorial DJ. 225 pp; profusely illustrated with color and b/w plates. VG+, presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author. Item #115971.1
ISBN: 0262192802

Encompasses 90 American artists who use other sources of inspiration to expand the possibilities of photographic art; these are pictures that are made not taken; this catalogue includes by Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine, Barbara Kruger, William Christenberry, Louise Lawler, Stefan Roloff, and Richard Prince, and others; Intro. by Merry Foresta and essay by Joshua Smith.

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