Alfredo Jaar: Hasselblad Award 2020
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A tribute to the artist's decades-long, uncompromising pursuit to flesh out the political potentialities of photography
In 2020, the multidisciplinary Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar (born 1956) received the prestigious Hasselblad Award for his unabated probing of the photographic medium. Published in honor of the occasion, this book compiles his groundbreaking works and includes a new essay by philosopher Jacques Rancière.
Jacques Rancière
Jacques Ranci�re is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII. His books include The Politics of Aesthetics, On the Shores of Politics, Short Voyages to the Land of the People, The Nights of Labor, Staging the People, and The Emancipated Spectator.
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