ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First SightThe Artbook 2022 Gift GuidesArtbook Featured Image ArchiveDATE 2/16/2023 Join Artbook | D.A.P. at the 2023 CAA National ConferenceDATE 2/15/2023 The Brooklyn Museum presents the launch of 'Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with Architects' by András SzántóDATE 2/5/2023 Join Artbook | D.A.P. at the Winter 2023 Shoppe Object Independent Home and Gift ShowDATE 1/30/2023 Artbook @ MoMA PS1 presents the book celebration and signing of 'Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces'DATE 1/29/2023 Lyrical and exuberant, 'Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature' releases this weekDATE 1/27/2023 'Elizaveta Porodina: Un/Masked' opens at Fotografiska New YorkDATE 1/24/2023 Themes of gender, race, class and social change in 'Events of the Social'DATE 1/23/2023 Happy New Year from Artbook | D.A.P.!DATE 1/21/2023 Deborah Bell presents Elaine Mayes and Kevin Moore on 'The Haight-Ashbury Portraits'DATE 1/21/2023 Into the meat grinderDATE 1/19/2023 McNally Jackson Books Seaport and Primary Information present Mirene Arsanios, Constance DeJong and Annie-B ParsonDATE 1/19/2023 Humanity, depth and insight in 'Peter Hujar Curated by Elton John'DATE 1/18/2023 Amy Sherald, infusing the present and the future with hope | 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. |