Art Photography Now (or, rather, a dozen years ago and more!)

Art Photography Now published by Thames & Hudson.
A free pdf version is also available on the internet.

Each chapter has a two-page introduction. Read those two pages at the start of Portrait and of Narrative.
Your required homework is thus to read 4 pages... I know you can do it!

The book is a good introduction to some of the wonderfully strange photographs in the world of ART. But it falls far short of explaining what is art and when photographs become art. Indeed, it includes photographs that most would definitely declare to not be art. However, we will not be entering a debate on whether "street photography" is art. We will stay clear of the fringes and concentrate on the undisputable works of art....

Gregory Crewdson, Hannah Starkey, Jeff Wall, Gillian Wearing,
Andreas Gursky, Wolfgang Tillmans, Cindy Sherman, the book contains some of the most famous photographic artists around.

Who is your favourite?
I like Erwin Wurm because his images are funny and almost no one does what he does.