BREAKING NEW BOUNDRAIRES OF PHOTOGRPAHIC SCULPTURE

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SUNYOUNG PARK

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This article discusses to what extent contemporary photographic sculptures can distinguish themselves from similar movement in the past. The first part of this research explores the historic exhibition in 1970 - "Photography into Sculpture" -  to find out what drove the ideas of the artists involved. Afterwards, its outcome connects to the current photographic context in which the photograph as the three-dimensional object arise. It was found that contemporary photographic sculptures investigate, uncover and challenge photographic depiction and representation by application of sculptural qualities, such as referring to the Here and Now, its multi-perspectivity and the possibilities for the use of diverse materials. The result is a hybrid object that carries both photographic as well as sculptural qualities. It reveals in a photographic sculpture: both image and surface, flat and spatial, visual and material, reproducible and unique, inside and outside, and both ‘that was has been’ with the Here and Now.

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