Fred lonidier biography
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Fred Lonidier’s casual photography
Fred Lonidier shot the photographs that now comprise the University of California San Diego Visual Arts Department History Archive on a 35mm camera he carried with him day-to-day starting in the late 1960s, as he went from art student to professor.
In this same period, Lonidier and his peers, Martha Rosler and Allan Sekula, who became known as the San Diego Group, would embark on the project known to their historians as “the reinvention of documentary,” an attempt to reimagine the genre in solidarity with the working class.
Fred lonidier biography
Revisiting historical efforts, from reportage and Soviet factography to the Farm Security Administration, the San Diego Group arrived at their own strategies of generating critical distance: photographing according to fixed parameters, recontextualizing images, framing them with text.
Their artworks and writings made photography and the archival form the focus of circumspection. And yet, Lonidier was there just taking picture