Walead Beshty
Philip-Lorca di Corcia
Trevor Paglen
Vince Aletti
George Baker
Jennifer Blessing
Charlotte Cotton
Geoff Dyer
Peter Galassi
Corey Keller
Douglas Nickel
Andrea V. Rosenthal
Blake Stimson
Joel Snyder
Symposium with artists and curators
Symposium. Photography has almost always been in crisis. In the beginning, the terms of this crisis were cast as dichotomies: is photography science or art? Nature or technology? Representation or truth? This questioning has intensified and become more complicated over the intervening years. At times, the issues have required a profound rethinking of what photography is, does, and means. This is one of those times. Given the nature of contemporary art practice, the condition of visual culture, the advent of new technologies, and many other factors, what is at stake today in seeing something as a photograph? What is the value of continuing to speak of photography as a specific practice or discipline? Is photography over? Participants include Vince Aletti, George Baker, Walead Beshty, Jennifer Blessing, Charlotte Cotton, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Geoff Dyer, Peter Galassi, Corey Keller, Douglas Nickel, Andrea V. Rosenthal, Trevor Paglen, Blake Stimson and Joel Snyder.