Synopses & Reviews
From early amateur snapshots to todayand#8217;s advanced digital images, photography has been the perfect means to record peopleand#8217;s lives. This provocative book explores the complex and varied ways that five contemporary photographersand#150;and#150;Tina Barney, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, and Larry Sultanand#150;and#150;use their own daily experiences as inspiration for their art.
Each of these artists has created highly personal, shifting, and intriguing visions of his or her life. The works range from Tina Barneyand#8217;s orchestrated depictions of her friends and family in affluent New England settings to Nan Goldinand#8217;s unabashed portrayal of intimate, and often brutally honest, moments. Sally Mann turned to her children and their surroundings as her subject, and Larry Sultan has accomplished something similar in his depictions of his parents. Philip-Lorca diCorcia offers up his and#147;storybook lifeand#8221; in photographs thatand#151;like others in this groupand#151;span nearly twenty years.
So the Story Goes is arranged in portfolio format and features beautiful color reproductions of about twenty photographs by each artist. With an introductory essay that examines the development of personal narrative in photography, as well as insightful entries on each artist, the book analyzes how these works tell a lifeand#8217;s story.
About the Author
Katherine A. Bussard is Assistant Curator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago.