Create and be recognized : photography on the edge

We cite from the cover: -- The first survey of an electrifying subset of outsider art, introduced here as "outsider photography", "Create and Be Recognized" presents the work of 17 largely self-taught artists who have used photographs or photographic elements in their creation. Form simple portraits to scrap-based sculpture, passionately contrived tableaux to multilayered collages, "Create and be recognized" brings together the visual expressions of a host of artists who lived and worked on the fringe. Lyrical and intense, but always fascinating, the work of renowned figures such as Adolf Wölfli, Howard Finster and Henry Darger is featured alongside that of equally passionate and exgtreme artists, much of it seen here for the first time. "Create and Be Recognized" celebrates the subversive domocracy of photographs and charts a little-known yet important course through the history of photography and art".