The first book in English to document a phenomenon of increasing importance to contemporary photographic practice
Lyle Rexer is a New York–based independent writer and critic. His previous books include Photography’s Antiquarian Avant-Garde (2002) and How to Look at Outsider Art (2005); he contributed an interview with Chuck Close and Bob Holman to A Couple of Ways of Doing Something (Aperture, 2006), and is the author of Edge of Vision (Aperture, 2010.)
The only English-language book to chronicle the history of
abstraction in photography. –The New Yorker
Though approaches to photographic abstraction are varied, the end
results all deny the viewer a discernible reference to reality,
defying the most conventional norm in photography. –The New Yorker
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