"Traversing the fine line between artists who are photographers and artists who use photography, The Last Picture Show traces the development of Conceptual trends in postwar photographic practice from their first glimmerings in the 1960s in the work of artists such as Bernd and Hilla Becher, Bruce Nauman, and Edward Ruscha to their rise to art world prominence in the work of the Picture Theory artists of the late 1970s and early 1980s, including Silvia Kolbowski, Richard Prince, and Cindy Sherman."--Jacket.

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Walker Art Center Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 2003-Jan. 2004; UCLA Hammer Museum Los Angeles, Calif., Feb.-May, 2004. Includes index.

The Last Picture Show /Douglas Fogle 9 -- Artists and Photographs / Lawrence Alloway 20 -- "I'm Not Really a Photographer" / A.D. Coleman 22 -- The Anti-Photographers / Nancy Foote 24 -- "Marks of Indifference": Aspects of Photography in, or as, Conceptual Art / Jeff Wall 32 -- Vito Acconci 45 -- Bas Jan Ader 47 -- Giovanni Anselmo 50 -- Eleanor Antin 52 -- John Baldessari 54 -- Bernd and Hilla Becher 58 -- Joseph Beuys 61 -- Mel Bochner 64 -- Christian Boltanski 67 -- Marcel Broodthaers 70 -- Victor Burgin 72 -- Sarah Charlesworth 74 -- Bruce Conner 78 -- Jan Dibbets 80 -- Valie Export 82 -- Alternative Pictures: Conceptual Art and the Artistic Emancipation of Photography in Europe / Stefan Gronert 86 -- Photographs of Motion / Dan Graham 97 -- The Weight of Time / James Lingwood 99 -- Art through the Camera's Eye / Robert Smithson 105 -- Misunderstandings (A Theory of Photography) / Mel Bochner 107 -- The Adventures of the Picture Form in the History of Photography / Jean-Francois Chevrier 113 -- Hans-Peter Feldmann 129 -- Peter Fischli and David Weiss 131 -- Gilbert & George 136 -- Dan Graham 138 -- Hans Haacke 143 -- Douglas Huebler 146 -- Yves Klein 148 -- Imi Knoebel 149 -- Silvia Kolbowski 153 -- Jeff Koons 155 -- Barbara Kruger 156 -- David Lamelas 158 -- Louise Lawler 160 -- Sherrie Levine 163 -- Sol LeWitt 168 -- Richard Long 174 -- Cancellation / Geoffrey Batchen 177 -- Notes on My Photographs, 1969-1970 / Vito Acconci 183 -- Notebook Excerpts, 1969 / Vito Acconci 184 -- The Austerlitz Effect: Architecture, Time, Photoconceptualism / Pamela M. Lee 185 -- My Files of Movie Stills / John Baldessari 195 -- Disposable Matter: Photoconceptual Magazine Work of the 1960s / Melanie Marino 196 -- The Photographic Activity of Postmodernism / Douglas Crimp 204 -- Gordon Matta-Clark 208 -- Ana Mendieta 211 -- Mario Merz 212 -- Nasreen Mohamedi 214 -- Bruce Nauman 218 -- Helio Oiticica and Neville d'Almeida 226 -- Dennis Oppenheim 228 -- Giulio Paolini 230 -- Giuseppe Penone 232 -- Adrian Piper 234 -- Sigmar Polke 238 -- Richard Prince 240 -- Statement / Sherrie Levine 244 -- Incorrect / Barbara Kruger 245 -- The 8-Track Photograph / Richard Prince 246 -- The Velvet Well / Richard Prince 248 -- Without Walls / Molly Nesbit 249 -- Glossolalia / Sarah Charlesworth, Barbara Kruger 259 -- The Latest Picture / Kate Bush 262 -- Charles Ray 267 -- Martha Rosler 272 -- Allen Ruppersberg 274 -- Edward Ruscha 278 -- Cindy Sherman 284 -- Laurie Simmons 290 -- Robert Smithson 294 -- Ger Van Elk 298 -- Jeff Wall 301 -- Andy Warhol 302 -- Robert Watts 310 -- William Wegman 312 -- James Welling 317 -- Hannah Wilke 321 -- Exhibition Checklist 322 -- Lenders to the Exhibition 333.