Impure vision : staged American art photography of the 1970s

In Impure Vision, photography theorist Moa Goysdotter analyzes the work of four of the main activists and artists of staged photography – Krims, Michals, Tress, and Samaras.

By applying new perspectives to photography of the 1970s Goysdotter sheds light on these photographers’ critique of purist ideals, and their methods of transcending the entrapment of the purely visual effects of photo.