Andreas Gursky. (artist)(exhibit at 303 gallery, New York, New York)

Artforum International | May 1, 1995| | Copyright

Did photography "ruin" painting? This question, which achieved its 19th-century crystallization in Baudelaire's famous complaint in "The Salon of 1859," has nagged at critical consciousness ever since the advent of the medium. Various theorists from Walter Benjamin to Rosalind Krauss have attempted to unravel the Gordian knot that links painting and photography; none has yet discovered Alexander's sword.

In the 19th century, Romantic pictorialists like the Victorian grandes dames Julia Margaret Cameron and Lady Hawarden reveled in the camera's power to transform ...

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