Chapter 7 response

The focus of this chapter is on contemporary art photographs and their styles and ideas. Specifically, the chapter concentrates on photographs that represent photographers’ own cultural knowledge of generic as well as specific images. The first half of the chapter provides art photographers of 20 century, and then the author also lists some works of 19 century that are related to the topic. In this chapter the author also discusses some of the photographic devices used by contemporary art photographers such as camera obsura. The purpose of this chapter is to presenting art photographs that represent artist’s idea and culture background and at the same time showing us the world.