Since its inception in the early 1800s, photography has been the site of immense change as it evolved from a scientific challenge to a world-shaking mass medium over the past 200 years. The digital revolution of the new millennium has brought on both never-before-seen capabilities and a new ubiquity of the photographed image, developments artists have eagerly explored and exploited. These eight works, each excerpted from Phaidon’s The 21st Century Art Book, are some of the shining examples of fine art photography from the past 15 years.
Thomas Ruff, Louise Lawler, Wolfgang Tillmans, Thomas Struth, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Catherine Opie, Dayanita Singh, Luisa Lambri