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ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First SightThe Artbook 2024 Gift GuidesArtbook Featured Image ArchiveArtbook D.A.P. Events ArchiveDATE 7/15/2025 Join us at the Atlanta Gift & Home Summer Market 2025DATE 6/25/2025 Rizzoli presents Anderson Zaca with Thom (Panzi) Hansen for the NYC launch of 'Fire Island Invasion: A Day of Independence'DATE 6/22/2025 Artbook at MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents Dawoud Bey, Michelle Kuo and Joseph Logan on 'Jack Whitten: The Messenger'DATE 6/22/2025 Enlightening 'Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal' is Back in Stock!DATE 6/21/2025 ICP Photobook Club presents Anderson Zaca on 'Fire Island Invasion'DATE 6/20/2025 Attention photobook collectors, ‘Masahisa Fukase: Sasuke’ is Back in Stock!DATE 6/15/2025 Gasoline and Magic for Father's Day, 2025DATE 6/13/2025 In Nydia Blas' 'Love, You Came from Greatness,' the title says it allDATE 6/12/2025 'Gordon Parks: Segregation Story' is Back in Stock!DATE 6/9/2025 Four decades of previously unpublished work by Bruce DavidsonDATE 6/8/2025 Artbook at MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents J. Hoberman and Melissa Rachleff Burtt on 'Everything is Now'DATE 6/7/2025 Artbook at MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents Jeanette Spicer launching 'To the Ends of the Earth'DATE 6/5/2025 A love letter from Robert Frank | AT FIRST SIGHTMING LIN | DATE 7/8/2011Documenta Notebooks: Ian Wallace, The First Documenta, 1955Ian Wallace is well versed in the power of the image. Often recognized as the father of the Vancouver School of conceptual photography, which includes renowned artists such as Jeff Wall and Rodney Graham, he has pioneered a style that employs and critiques the tropes of mass media, often by way of reference to pop culture and contemporary events. These artists seek to apply the tools of conceptual art to photography in hopes of instigating social change. Jeff Wall's photos, for example, recall cinematic tableaux but are host to less romantic themes such as changing demographics in cities and suburban dystopias. Wallace’s works, which often meld painting and photography, contemplate the dual identity of the artist as both the passive observer and, conversely, authoritative documentarian of society. |