- understanding of history and reality has been through the photograph
- "we start to believe a photograph more than reality"
- life is presented by a series of images
- concept and context become much more important
- crossing over of ideas and styles is encouraged and expected
- modernism was objective and documentary
- postmodernism was subjective and fabricated photos were common
- documentary photographs in the 60's, for example, were supposed to be truthful
- pop art uses old photographs and uses a twist of their own personality
- Frank Majore was an important postmodernist
- it is less of a product ad, and more selling a lifestyle
-postmodernism means everything is an image
- Sherrie Levine was an appropriationist
-she was saying there is nothing left for an artist to do but copy
- it is a representation of an reproduction of an object
- Cindy Sherman is one of the most celebrated postmodernist photographers
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