| 1983 | North America • USA | Gilles Peress publishes Telex Iran.
Telex: Iran: In the Name of Revolution
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| 1983 | North America • USA | The Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA) opens officially in San Diego's historic Balboa Park cultural complex with a 7,500 square-foot space (1 May 1983) |
| 1983 | North America • USA | Larry Clark publishes Teenage Lust. |
| 1984 | North America • USA | The Getty Museum on Los Angeles opens a photographic department with Weston Naef as the first curator. By the end of 1984, through the acquisition of a number of key collections (including those of Samuel Wagstaff, Volker Kahman/Georg Heusch and Bruno Bischofberger), the collection has grown to 25,000 prints, 1,500 daguerreotypes, 475 albums containing almost 40,000 photographs and about 30,000 stereographs and cartes-de-visite. |
| 1985 | North America • USA | Jim Goldberg publishes Rich and Poor. |
| 1986 | North America • USA
| Nan Goldin publishes The Ballad of Sexual Dependency that examines her own life through personal snapshots taken between 1971 and 1985 of her sexual partners, friends and acquaintances as they progress through a personal hell of drugs and sex. The book captures the essence of self-absorption in a surrounding world that doesn't care.
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| 1986 | North America • USA | Bruce Weber publishes O Rio de Janeiro. |
| 1987 | North America • USA | Bill Burke publishes I Want To Take Picture. |
| 1987 | North America • USA
| Andy Warhol dies following a gall bladder operation. He had never fully recovered from a gunshot he received in July 1968 from Valerie Solanis of SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men). He remains one of the seminal figures of Pop Art and his conversion of the banal into art continues to influence photography. (27 February 1987) |
| 1987 | North America • USA | Karl Baden commences the Every day series in which he takes a stylistically similar self-portrait each day. (23 February 1987) |
| 1988 | North America • USA | The Piss Christ photograph of Andres Serrano encourages Senator Jesse Helms (Republican, North Carolina) to argue against federal funding for the National Endowment for the Arts. |
| 1988 | North America • USA | The Daguerreian Society (3043 West Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15216-2460, USA - www.daguerre.org) is founded to promote the study of all aspects of Daguerreotypes. |
| 1988 | North America • USA
| Joel Sternfeld publishes American Prospects.
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| 1989 | Europe • Spain | Joan Fontcuberta and Pere Formiguera publish Fauna. |
| 1990 | North America • USA | Allen Ginsberg publishes Allen Ginsberg Photographs.
Allen Ginsberg Photographs
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| 1990 | North America • USA | An exhibition of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Cincinnati Art Museum is closed down when the work is accused of being obscene. Although the Museum is cleared there is a shift towards censorship in the arts. |
| 1991 | North America • USA | Lothar Baumgarten publishes Carbon.
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| 1992 | North America • USA | Kodak releases the Photo-CD, it is the first popular method of storing digital images that is available to the public. |
| 1992 | North America • USA | The JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) image compression standard for digital images is published in IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics. As it is non-proprietary and has a high compression rate it becomes the preferred means for transmitting photographic images over the Internet. (February 1992) |
| 1994 | Europe • Germany | Christian Boltanski publishes Menschlich. |
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