# Michael Fried (2008) *Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before*. : Yale University Press. > [!INFO] > Type:: [[]] > Title:: Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before > Author(s): [[Michael Fried]] > Year:: 2008 > Tags:: > DOI:: > Citekey:: fried_why_2008 > ZoteroURI:: [Open in Zotero: Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before](zotero://select/items/@fried_why_2008) > ReviewedDate:: [[2024-02-24]] ## Citation ```latex [@fried_why_2008] ``` ## Summary ## Annotation Three beginnings – Jeff Wall and absorption ; Heidegger on worldhood and technology – Jeff Wall, Wittgenstein, and the everyday – Barthes's Punctum – Thomas Struth's museum photographs – Jean-François Chevrier on the "tableau form" ; Thomas Ruff, Andreas Gursky, Luc Delahaye – Portraits by Thomas Struth, Rineke Dijkstra, Patrick Faigenbaum, Luc Delahaye, and Roland Fischer ; Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno's film Zidane – Street photography revisited : Jeff Wall, Beat Streuli, Philip-Lorca diCorcia – Thomas Demand's allegories of intention ; "Exclusion" in Candida Höfer, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Thomas Struth – "Good" versus "bad" objecthood : James Welling, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Jeff Wall ### Related ```dataview LIST FROM [[@fried_why_2008]] and -"Plans" and -"resources" ```