The Beauty of a Social Problem: Photography, Autonomy, Economy

by Walter Benn Michaels

Book Overview

Bertolt Brecht once worried that our sympathy for the victims of a social problem can make the problem's "beauty and attraction" invisible. In The Beauty of a Social Problem, Walter Benn Michaels explores the effort to overcome this difficulty through a study of several contemporary artist-photographers whose work speaks to questions of political economy.

Although he discusses well-known figures like Walker Evans and Jeff Wall, Michaels's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022621026X
• ISBN13: 9780226210261
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.1"