New Photography_Post Appropriating Artists

There are younger group of artist who engage in a kind of post-appropriative practice., reinvest in photographic authorship, creating pictures that often exist simultaneously as commercial assignment and artwork.  they do so for different reasons than Richard Prince did when he rephotographed ads in the Seventies to question “notions of originality.”

They are appropriating the idead of the idea. Instead of appropriating existing imagery, the thing to do was appropriate the appropriation. Appropriation of popular images (i.e. images meant for mass consumption), and references to films, existing images and image styles, play a role in the work of in these artists. Because their motivations are different than previous artists who rephotographed or reused the work of others to call attention to their own idea. They absorb images and references and place them together with their own photography create an order from the mass of images we’re bombarded with in contemporary society. The photographers’ various works dilute the conventional definitions of photography, spilling out into fashion, film, and print media. The result? Sexy specimens of pop culture, still life compositions and manipulated promotional posters. 


What is conceptual photography 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q26mekrMoaY
What is conceptual photography 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TvpxG9fLqo

Watch the documentary of "The Future of Contemporary Photography" 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q26mekrMoaY

Work about Elad Lassry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUCwS5kmcS4
Another interview with Elad Lasrry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzIu_qto8yw
http://www.alexprager.com/#!/photography/Compulsion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVBgx_0-iUE

http://www.corcoran.org/exhibitions/alex-prager

Walead Beshty : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LO_o7os4Hs

Elad Lassry: ahttps://vimeo.com/88005224

Penelope Umbrico: https://vimeo.com/118907124