In the mid-seventies a group of artists from the East Coast of America began to challenge the conventions of the photographic medium starting from its technical and moral aspects, which had enjoyed a great influence in the uses of representation in the late twentieth century. The defence of truth was expressed by an unknown degree of exposed intimacy, which revealed modes of affection and consequently the emergence of new models of social articulation. In the course of the nineties this group was renamed the Boston School after a pun by artist Nan Goldin.
The volume includes interviews with the participating artists (David Armstrong, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin, Jack Pierson, Tabbool, Gail Thacker and Shellburne Thurber), as well as with Jane Hudson (artist and teacher at the SChool of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston), Collier Schort (artist and art critic), Lia Gangitano (co-curator of the Boston School project at the Boston Institute of Contemporary Arts and director of Participant, Inc., New York) and Teresa Gruber (by The EState of Mark Morrisroe, Collection Ringier at the Fotomuseum Winterthur).