Photography and Contemporary Art: the end of a (hi)story?

The intellectual fetishism, in which photojournalism is nowadays swathed, gives rise to an effect of distance and remoteness in our perception of photography as linked with contemporary art. A brace of quite different publications strive first and foremost to produce a convergent effect. The first is by Charlotte Cotton, and devoted to photography “in contemporary art”, while the second is the catalogue of the photographic collection of the FRAC Rhône-Alpes Institute of Contemporary Art and t..