Making It Real

by Lucy Sante (Contributor), William Mitchell

Tina Barney, David Levinthal, Laurie Simmons and the other artists in this collection approach the question of photographic truth through a simulated reality that deliberately exposes props and artifice. The results are simultaneously deceptive and precise descriptions of reality, blurring the distinction between fact and fiction.

72 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Lucy Sante was born in Verviers Belgium and emigrated to the United States in the early 1960s. Since 1984, she has been a teacher and writer, and frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books. Her publications include Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York, and The Factory of Facts and Folk Photography. She currently teaches creative writing and the history of photography at Bard College in New York State.