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Long before social media created a surfeit of globally interconnected images, the art world opened its previously narrow confines to include the true diversity of image production. Image Making chronicles Shelley Rice's skillful navigation of two pivotal moments in this transformation: the pluralism of New York in the 1970s and the global outreach of digital networks in the 2010s. As one of our era's most incisive and inspired photography and multimedia critics, Rice's insightful reviews and articles chronicle this seismic shift, offering a deeply resonant exploration of art's intersection with society. Her critical engagement with renowned artists and curators such as Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Ana Mendieta, Francesca Woodman, Lorraine O'Grady, Duane Michals, Gerhard Richter, Okwui Enwezor, Walid Raad, and Cindy Sherman sets a standard for understanding contemporary art and the vital role a seminal critic plays in shaping our visual culture. Image Making is indispensable reading for anyone interested in contemporary art, the role of criticism, and the deep interdependence of images and social, cultural, and political forces.

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""While gathering her critical essays for Image Making, Shelley Rice recognized that 'intelligence, curiosity, and respect' were her mainstays as she built a global view of art. Her perspectives were and are still uniquely fresh and insightful."" -Anne Tucker, curator and essayist for fifty years "" I remember reading Parisian Views over twenty years ago and immediately being struck by Shelley Rice's beautiful prose and thought-provoking insights....From that moment on, I knew that I would follow her time and again, down her various rabbit holes. And she did not disappoint as she opened doors to various known and unknown artistic, historical, and critical universes."" -Walid Raad, artist and Professor of Photography, Bard College ""Shelley Rice is an incisive, sagacious, and unafraid observer of the field of photography. Although she got in fights with some prominent artists, she remained unafraid. Over forty years, her scope expanded from the downtown New York scene to the international stage. Image Making: Essays on Visual Culture (1978-2018) is an essential survey of our visual world."" -Martha Wilson, artist and Founding Director Emerita of Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. ""The photo criticism of Shelley Rice evolved in the space that was once called New Journalism and is now a venerable and still exciting, hybrid place of the objective (for want of a better word) and the personal. In Image Making: Essays on Visual Culture, 1978-2018, Rice's wide-ranging observations about the art of creating photographs and its relationship to her own life are vivid, original, and profound."" -Kenneth E. Silver, Silver Professor of Art History Emeritus, New York University ""A joy to read. Each essay is a force field, a graven memory, philosophy as fresh as day. Reading this book is like walking through a portal, a different one, time after time; an adventure in high seriousness."" -Alexander Nemerov, author of Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York ""Shelley Rice's brilliant essays on image making tell it like it is in forty years of commentary from the art world or worlds. An integral voice in the course that finally anointed photography as an art form, her erudite and readable prose is global in scope and critical in the best sense. Rice is an important ally to artists while holding them to high standards, political and aesthetic, opening herself to the art, and growing and changing (her words) in the process."" -Lucy R. Lippard, activist, curator, and the author/editor of Partial Recall: Photographs of Native North Americans ""[Rice's] ""Image Making"" columns in the Soho Weekly News during the 1970s, collected here, are a vivid, highly personal, yet critically acute snapshot of a decisive moment in photo history-the widespread use of photography as a leading medium for contemporary art-in the work of artists such as Barbara Kruger and Robert Mapplethorpe...Forty years later, her blogs for the Jeu de Paume, Paris, immerse us in practices of artmaking and curating that were emerging from all over the world and remaking worlds in the process."" -Terry Smith, Andrew W. Mellon Emeritus Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory, University of Pittsburgh ""Image Making is a testament to Shelley Rice's enduring influence and the vital role she plays in shaping how we see and understand the world. It offers a guiding light for those of us navigating the complexities of visual expression....It is exciting to see this culmination of her decades of work in one place where current and future scholars can access it."" -Hank Willis Thomas

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Shelley Rice is a renowned art critic and historian who has lectured on visual media worldwide. She is the author of Parisian Views and the editor of Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman; co-author of The Book of 101 Books, Paris et le Daguerreotype, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Vik Muniz: Incomplete Works, Candida Höfer: In Portugal, Marc Ferrez: Rio, and Unbranded: A Century of White Women. Her writings have appeared in Artforum, Art in America, Art Journal, The New Republic, The Village Voice, Tate Papers, Bookforum, and Aperture, among others. She has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hasselblad Center grant, National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities awards, Senior Fulbrights to France and Turkey, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency, and the PEN/Jerard Award for Non-Fiction Essay. In 2010 she was named Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture. She teaches at New York University.

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