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Contemporary photography faces rather a contemplative attitude. Large format cameras are used as opposed to mm laptops. Like Roger Fenton and his images of the Crimean War, contemporary photography is an account of the damage, obeying what we could call the aftermath aesthetic. Some artists who practice this genre Simon Norfolk, Adam Broomberg  Oliver Chanarin, Bruce Nauman, Mac Adams, Robert Cumming, Gerhard Richter, Richard Misrach. Crimean War. Roger Fento And that is art Of course!

In the article And that is art Photography in quicksand we e-commerce photo editing commented on the astonishment of the observer before contemporary photography. No one should feel bad, contemporary photography is extraordinarily complex, often brutal, other times ineffable and subtle. It is impossible to understand it with the codes of artistic photography typical of modernism or documentary genres. It is required to understand the historical context of artphotography brawls , conceptual art , imageimagination relations as well as the ideaconcept . With this article we offer the reader an additional reading tool.



We present again the photographs of the first article of this series with a simple question Can the reader now decipher these three photographs a little better Wolfgang Tillmanns Lucas Blalock Richard Billingham We cannot yet close the topic of contemporary artistic photography. Still missing is a look at the monetary value of fine art photography , and a closer look at five contemporary photographers working on the theme of identity who together offer an interesting overview of recent photography Cindy Sherma .