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Background information
The 'V&A Photography Library' is a new series of accessible, introductory volumes to the key themes, works, objects and individuals in photography, illustrated with unprecedented access to the V&A’s photography collection, the oldest held by a public museum and one of the largest and finest in the world, now expanded with acquisitions from the Royal Photographic Society collection.
Written by Marta Weiss, Assistant Curator of Photographs at the V&A, the out-of-print photo volume 'Making it Up: Photographic Fictions' shows how, throughout its history, photography has been used to depict fiction as well as fact. With nearly one hundred photographs supported by extended commentaries and an introduction 'Making It Up: Photographic Fictions' illustrates that, though we often recognize the staged, constructed or the tableau as a feƒature of contemporary art photography, this way of working is almost as old as the practice itself.
Content
Presenting work from the earliest through to the most contemporary of photographers, the photo compendium 'Making It Up: Photographic Fictions' puts paid to the fallacy that ‘the camera never lies’, proving that quite the opposite may be true. Remarkable in themselves, these photographic fictions, whether created by early practitioners such as Lewis CAROLL or Roger FENTON, internationally renowned artists such as Cindy SHERMAN and Jeff WALL, or contemporary figures such as Hannah STARKEY and Bridget SMITH, find new and intriguing relevance in our so-called ‘post-truth’ age." (© Thames and Hudson, 2019)
About the photographers, presented in the book with their works
- Lewis CAROLL, Roger FENTON, Angus McBEAN, Cindy SHERMAN, Jeff WALL, Hannah STARKEY, Bridget SMITH, Jo SPENCE
Photo books by photographers, presented with their works
- CAROLL, Lewis
FENTON, Roger
McBEAN, Angus
SHERMAN, Cindy
SMITH, Bridget
SPENCE, Jo
STARKEY, Hannah
WALL, Jeff