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IDEA Photographic: After Modernism Themes
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Early to Late Modernism
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Constructed to Be Photographed

The artist constructs a physical environment with real and fabricated elements to be photographed. Various art mediums click to enlarge are used in hybrid forms, such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, media arts, text, and, increasingly today, the application of digital imaging. Afterwards the original fabricated set often is destroyed. The artist reconstructs realities and fictional dramas in the final form of the photograph, which then questions, even challenges, ideas of veracity.
—Siegfried Halus

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