Focal Press Companion to the Constructed Image in Contemporary Photography

Marni Shindelman’s work investigates proximity and touch in digital culture. She is half the collaborative team of Larson & Shindelman. Their ongoing project, Geolocation, uses publicly available embedded GPS information in Twitter updates to track the locations of user posts and make photographs to mark the location in the real world. She is an assistant professor at the University of Georgia, Lamar Dodd School of Art. Prior to that she taught for ten years at the University of Rochester. Her work has been in exhibitions at Crystal Bridges Museum, solo exhibitions Blue Sky in Portland, United Photo Industries in Brooklyn, the Contemporary Arts Center Las Vegas. Selections have been shown in group shows at the Light Factory in Charlotte, the FotoFestiwal in Poland, the Houston Center for Photography, Baltimore Museum of Art, the Moscow International Biennale in Russia, and Conflux Festival in NYC. Shindelman’s projects have been featured in Wired Magazine, GUP Magazine, The Picture Show from NPR, The Dish, PetaPixel, Fast Company, Gizmodo, Hyperallergic, the New York Times, Hostshoe Magazine, the Washington Post, Utne Reader, Flavorwire, Frieze Magazine, the British Journal of Photography, the BBC News Viewfinder, and on the radio program Marketplace Tech Report.Anne Leighton Massoni is the Program Director of Photography at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Prior to teaching at UArts she held positions at Marshall University, Cornell University, Tyler School of Art, Washington College, Memphis College of Art, and Monmouth University. She has exhibited nationally and internationally including the H. F. Johnson Museum in New York, The Print Center in Philadelphia, The Sol Mednick Gallery in Philadelphia, NIH in Washington, DC, the Allen Sheppard Gallery in New York City, Newspace Gallery in Portland, Rayko in San Francisco, the East End Film Festival in London, England, the 2013 International Mobile Innovation Screening in New Zealand and Australia, and IlCantinonearte Teatri e Galleria del Grifo in Montepulciano, Italy. Recent publications of her work include ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art and SpostaMenti, published by MuseumsEtc in England. She serves as the Vice Chair of the National Board of the Society for Photographic Education.

• Foreword Introduction: The State of Photography, The Statusof Photographs Building Images, Building Spaces Madeline Yale Preston Single Artist Spotlights Jason DeMarte Letha Wilson Mark Dorf Eva Stenram Anthony Goicolea Interviews Adam Magyar Darren Harvey-Regan Hank Willis Thomas Ruth Van Beek Constructing Places Stacy J. Platt Single Artist Spotlights Shirana Shahbazi Susana Reisman Liliana Porter Interviews Wang Ningde Susan kae Grant Sensations of Place: Artist Altered Environments Liz Wells Single Artist Spotlights Adam Ekberg Noémie Goudal Matt Siber Interviews Laurent Millet Thomas Jackson Schematic Traces: Systems of Making Kate Palmer Albers Single Artist Spotlights Natalie Czech Shizuka Yokomizo Pato Hebert InterviewsPenelope Umbrico Mishka Henner Camera-Less: Photographic Fidelity (and Infidelity) Katherine Ware Single Artist SpotlightsFarrah Karapetian Shimpei TakedaBrittany Nelson Interviews Aspen Mays Liz Deschenes Performing for the Camera: Postmodernism, Antimodernism, and the Performative Photograph William J. SimmonsSingle Artist SpotlightsRenée Cox Ou ZhihangStacey Tyrell Interviews Lily McElroy Hillerbrand+Magsamen