Twenty-Five and Under: Photographers FROM THE PUBLISHER
This book of photographs from people twenty-five years of age and younger is an illuminating and sometimes startling look at how the next generation of American photographers is seeing and interpreting the world. Among the surprisingly sophisticated array of images are photojournalist essays, art constructions, computer-manipulated images, staged scenes, marred pictures, candid shots, portraits, still lifes, photos with a message, and photos that speak solely of their own artful beauty. 25 and Under/Photographers shows us the dreams, anxieties, and ambitions of some of our most talented and innovative young photographers.
FROM THE CRITICS
Library Journal
Editor George (Flesh and Blood, Picture Project, 1992) set out to find what photographers under the age of 25 are producing in this country. The result is this collection of work by 25 young photographers, whom few of us will have heard of or seen. Judging from the quality of the images here, however, some will be familiar names in contemporary photography in the coming decades. What strikes one is the self-absorbed nature of most of the work. Perhaps feeling that there is nothing that hasn't already been photographed in some way by someone else, these young artists choose to focus on the self and its context of home, friends, and activities. As a result, the photographic process seems to serve as a kind of self-exploratory tool, without larger ambitions or purpose. Appropriately, psychologist and Doubletake magazine cofounder Robert Coles writes an introductory essay about the act of seeing and the role of sight in shaping our experience of self and the world. Recommended for collections of contemporary photography.Kathleen Collins, New York Transit Museum Archives, Brooklyn
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