Blake Stimson.(The Pivot of the World: Photography and Its Nation; Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination After 1945)(Book review)

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Blake Stimson, The Pivot of the World: Photography and Its Nation, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, 2006, 230pp, pb, 12.95 [pounds sterling], 978 0 262 693332.

Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination After 1945, eds Blake Stimson and Gregory Sholette, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2007, 304pp, pb, 17.50 [pounds sterling], 0 8166 44624.

Blake Stimson, perhaps best known for his engagements with Conceptual Art, has more recently undertaken an extremely respect-worthy project. In his recent texts, The Pivot of the World: Photography and Its ...

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