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Haunted : contemporary photography, video, performance

[organized by] Jennifer Blessing, Nat Trotman ; with essays by Peggy Phelan, Lisa Saltzman, Nancy Spector

Guggenheim Museum Pub. , Distributed outside the United States and Canada by Thames & Hudson, c2010

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Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Mar. 26-Sept. 6, 2010 and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Nov. 2010-Apr. 2011

Exhibitors: Sally Mann, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol ... [et al.]

"Works illustrated": p. 202-206

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Much of contemporary photography and video seems haunted by the past, by ghostly apparitions that are reanimated in reproductive media, as well as in live performance and the virtual world. By using dated, passe, or quasiextinct stylistic devices, subject matter and technologies, this art embodies a melancholic longing for an otherwise unrecuperable past. Haunted examines the myriad ways photographic imagery is incorporated into recent practice and in the process underscores the unique power of reproductive media while documenting a widespread contemporary obsession with documenting the past. The works included in the exhibition range from individual photographs and photographic series, to sculptures and paintings that incorporate photographic elements, to videos, film, performance and site-specific installations. Drawn primarily from the Guggenheim's collection, Haunted features recent acquisitions, many of which will be exhibited by the museum for the first time.

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