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Rosalind Krauss - Photographys Discursive Spaces
Photography's Discursive Spaces: Landscape/View Rosalind Krauss Art Journal, Vol. 42, No. 4, The Crisis in the Discipline. (Winter, 1982), pp. 311-319.
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Photography's Discursive Spaces:

By Rosalind Krauss

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et us start with two images, identically titled Tufa Domes, Pyramid Lake, Nevada. The first (Fig. I) is a (recently) celebrated photograph made by Timothy O'Sullivan in 1868 that functions with special insistence within the art historical construction of nineteenth-century landscape photography. The second (Fig. 2) is a lithographic copy of the first,



Citations: An Introduction to the Dating and Organization of Eugène Atget 's Photographs Barbara L. Michaels The Art Bulletin, Vol. 61, No. 3. (Sep., 1979), pp. 460-468.

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