By manipulating the means and products of mass media, Richard Prince gives his viewers a glimpse of American culture as directed toward middle-class consumers. His appropriations of living rooms, watches, and sophisticated couples and individuals turn the informative nature of the original advertisement into cultural indicators of borrowed and fictional representation. This book assembles together the photographs that initiated Prince's exploration of "authorship" and "the original," ideas that were prevalent in the critical discourse of the late 70s, and are perhaps even more so today.
Charles Sheeler, Paintings and Drawings
--one Thing Just Sort of Led to Another--: The Photographs of Todd Walker
Photographs
Magic Doors
Marble Tree
Photographs by Walter Pfeiffer.
Walter Pfeiffer's Scrapbooks from 1969 to 1982 are a very unique Wunderkammer. Pfeiffer's polaroids and photographs alternate with miscellaneous objects newspaper clippings, postcards, packaging, tickets and brief punning notes.
English Anxieties: Tim Brennan
Photographer Michael Thompson offers a grand, almost fantastical vision of fashion, glamour and style. A compelling yet enigmatic sequence of radiant images, plucked from his fashion spreads, portrait shoots, and personal projects.
Michel Auder: I Had Another Bird to Feed