The life of an artistic medium lies in the capricious nature of the contemporary art market. Even the heavy-hitters - painting, sculpture and drawing - have fallen victim to this ebb and flow; declared dead one moment, only to be resurrected the next. Now it is photography's turn to contemplate its fate atop this precarious fence. Does it fall backward and play into the taunts that call photography an "obsolete" medium, so stretched and manipulated by its collaborations with other practices that it is rendered indefinable? Or, inspired by globalization, does it jump forward into distinction, with practitioners resuscitating the traditional form of the documentary image? "Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography", with an introduction by TJ Demos, is the definitive book on photography in the contemporary art world today. "Vitamin Ph" is a global survey of new developments in the medium of photography, featuring 121 living artists who have made a contribution to the...

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