How photography became contemporary art | andy grundberg

When Andy Grundberg landed in New York in the early 1970s as a budding writer, photography was at the margins of the contemporary art world.

By 1991, when he left his post as critic for the New York Times, photography was at the vital center of artistic debate.

Part memoir and part history, this perspective by one of the period’s leading critics ultimately tells a larger story about the crucial decades of the 70s and 80s through the medium of photography.