Title & Author:

Words without pictures / [editor, Alex Klein ; initial concept, Charlotte Cotton].

Edition:

1st Aperture ed.

Publication:

New York : Aperture ; London : Thames & Hudson [distributor], ©2009.

Description:

501 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
"November 2007-February 2009, Los Angeles County Museum of Art"--Page following title page
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Charlotte Cotton and Alex Klein -- Qualifying photography as art, of, is photography all it can be? / Christopher Bedford -- Discussion forum: Charlotte Cotton, Arthur Ou, Phillip Prodger, Alex Klein, Nicholas Grider, Ken Abbott, and Colin Westerbeck -- Is photography really art? / Arthur Ou, Michael Queenland and Mark Wyse -- Online photographic thinking / Jason Evans -- Discussion forum: Amir Zaki, Nicholas Grider, David Campany, David Weiner, Lester Pleasant and Penelope Umbrico -- foRm / Kevin Moore -- Discussion forum: Carter Mull, Charlotte Cotton and Alex Klein -- Too drunk to fuck (on the anxiety of photography) / Mark Wyse -- Discussion forum: Bennett Simpson, Charlie White and Ken Abbott -- Too early too late / Miranda Lichtenstein, Carter Mull and Amir Zaki -- Remembering and forgetting conceptual art / Alex Klein -- Discussion forum: Shannon Ebner and Phil Chang -- Remembering and forgetting conceptual art / Sarah Charlesworth, John Divola and Shannon Ebner -- Who cares about books? / Darius Himes -- Discussion forum: Jason Fulford, Siri Kaur and Chris Balaschak -- Minor threat / Charlie White -- Discussion forum: William E. Jones, Catherine Grant, David Campany and Charlotte Cotton -- The value of photograhs / Paul Graham, Soo Kim and Anthony Pearson -- Process, content, and dissemination: photography and music / Charlotte Cotton -- Discussion forum: Edith Marie Pasquier -- A picture you already know / Sze Tsung Leong -- Discussion forum: Noel Rodo-Vankeulen, John Lehr, Karen Hellman and Joshua Chuang -- Lost not found: the circulation of images in digital visual culture / Marisa Olson -- Discussion forum: Jacob Cicci and Donald P. Grady -- Abstracting photography / Walead Beshty -- Discussion forum: Gil Blank, Miles Coolidge, Karl Haendel, Zoe Crosher, Anthony Pearson and Jason Smith -- A picture you already know / Amy Adler, Alex Slade and Penelope Umbrico -- Photography and abstraction / George Baker -- Discussion forum: Moyra Davey, Hito Steyerl, Mark Godfrey, Johanna Burton and Tom McDonough -- Why photography now? / Harrell Fletcher, Leslie Hewitt and A.L. Steiner -- Conversation: Allan McCollum and Allen Ruppersberg -- Conversation: Sharon Lockhart and James Welling.

Summary:

"The WORDS WITHOUT PICTURES publication documents roughly one year of conversations surrounding photography. The book includes all twelve essays from the website, a selection of the on-line responses to the essays, excerpts from live panel discussions held at LACMA, two conversations with artists, and answers to a series of questionnaires on the current state of photography that were circulated to artists, critics, curators, and publishers."--Words Without Pictures web site

ISBN:

9781597111423 (pbk.)
1597111422 (pbk.)

Subject:

Photography, Artistic Philosophy.
Photographie artistique Philosophie.
Photography.

Form/genre:

Essays.
Interviews.

Added entries:

Klein, Alex (Alex P.), 1978-
Cotton, Charlotte.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 266967
Call No.: BIB 199017
Status: Available