Not only are major international museums and galleries devoting blockbuster exhibitions to the medium, but artist-photographers are also being celebrated as contemporary masters and their work commands unprecedented prices.

This stunning survey presents the work of seventy-six of the most important and best-loved artist-photographers in the world today. Susan Bright has organized the book into seven sections—City, Portrait, Document, Object, Landscape, Fashion, and Narrative—each of which explores the diverse subjects, styles, and methods adopted by artists. Introductions to each section outline the genres and consider why photographers are attracted to certain themes and how issues like memory, time, objectivity, politics, identity, and the everyday are tied to certain approaches. Each photographer’s work is then presented in sequence, with commentaries by the author highlighting the art’s most important aspects. Quotations from the artists appear alongside to offer valuable insights into the motivation, inspiration, and intentions behind the work.

With an introduction that sets out the historical relationship between art and photography from the early nineteenth century and discusses the art world’s embrace of the medium in recent decades, Art Photography Now is a truly comprehensive guide to the essential aspects of contemporary photography.

Including work from: Doug Aiken, Uta Barth, Koto Bolofo, Sophie Calle, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Corinne Day, Paul Graham, Hong HOa, Sarah Jones, Bill Henson, Susan Meiselas, Julie Moos, Collier Schorr, Cindy Sherman, Erwin Wurm, and more!