David Smith in Two Dimensions

Photography and the Matter of Sculpture

Sarah Hamill

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English

University of California Press
31 January 2015

History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Sculpture; Individual artists, art monographs; Photographs: collections

How does photography shape the way we see sculpture? In David Smith in Two Dimensions, Sarah Hamill broaches this question through an in-depth consideration of the photography of American sculptor David Smith (1906–1965). Smith was a modernist known for radically shifting the terms of sculpture, a medium traditionally defined by casting, modeling, and carving. He was the first to use industrial welding as a sustained technique for large-scale sculpture, influencing a generation of minimalists to come. What is less known about Smith is his use of the camera to document his own sculptures as well as everyday objects, spaces, and bodies. His photographs of his sculptures were published in countless exhibition catalogs, journals, and newspapers, often as anonymous illustrations. Far from being neutral images, these photographs direct a pictorial encounter with spatial form and structure the public display of his work.

David Smith in Two Dimensions looks at the sculptor's adoption of unconventional backdrops, alternative vantage points, and unusual lighting effects and exposures to show how he used photography to dramatize and distance objects. This comprehensive and penetrating account also introduces Smith's expansive archive of copy prints, slides, and negatives, many of which are seen here for the first time. Hamill proposes a new understanding of Smith's sculpture through photography, exploring issues that are in turn vital to discourses of modern sculpture, sculptural aesthetics, and postwar art. In Smith's photography, we see an artist moving fluidly between media to define what a sculptural object was and how it would be encountered publicly.

By: Sarah Hamill
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 953g
ISBN: 9780520280342
ISBN 10: 0520280342
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 31 January 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sarah Hamill is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Oberlin College.

Reviews for David Smith in Two Dimensions: Photography and the Matter of Sculpture

"""Does more than reveal the important role photography played in Smith's art; it fundamentally alters how we see the works he photographed."" Bookforum ""...thorough research and exceedingly compelling and rigorously formal readings of individual works."" -- Christa Noel Robbins Oxford Art Journal"