Excerpts from Sayag's Introduction to Photo Poche no. 38,
entitled 'comme un des Beaux-Arts', which deals with the history
of photography as an artistic practice, invented by 'mediocre
painters'. Sayag discusses the tenets of the pictorialist
movement ('reality as a vulgarity'), and traces the emergence
after WW I of photojournalism ('back to the natural objectivity
of photography'). Among the contemporary photographers briefly
discussed are Warhol, Rauschenberg, Samaras, Cindy Sherman,
Arnulf Rainer, Gilbert and George, Duane Michals, Les Krims,
Joel-Peter Witkin, Boltanski, Alain Fleischer, Georges Rousse,
Boyd Webb and the Starn Twins. (French)


Citaten:
Sayag, A.: Photographie comme Beaux-Arts (1989)
Baudelaire, C.: Salon de 1859 (1859)
Nadar, F. ..(1859)
Demachy, R.: Mechanism and Pict. Phot. (1907)