Post-Photography by Robert Shore, Laurence King Publishing, 272 pages, $48.
We are surrounded by images. In the era of smartphones we are all photographers and through various means are having those pictures viewed by a great many. The Internet has become a massive resource of imagery and artists are expressing themselves more frequently through the manipulation of found images. In this new era the photograph, which in itself is a creative act, is now the jumping off point for the next action. Robert Shore examines the work of 53 artists working with photography. For some the manipulation is just the next phase of their own picture taking, such as Jonny Briggs' Un-seeing series where he combines two images to expose what might be behind the original photo. Others use other people's photographs to spark their own creative explorations like the seemingly melting highways in Clement Valla's "Postcards from Google Earth."
