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http://www.moma.org/collection/works/206061

The Photographic II: Signal Or Noise⁣ Available at www.draw-down.com⁣ ⁣ The first chapter, Other Pictures, questioned the special potential of the still image. In Signal or Noise, the gaze is turned inwards and explores the camera as a metaphor for human existence.⁣ ⁣ To a large extent, photography is produced by machines. The reading of an image thus also requires knowledge of the technological development of the discipline, especially because photography has gradually anchored itself in the social sphere. The more images and their environment merge, the more signal and noise become interchangeable.⁣ ⁣ Readable, manipulated, and hidden information are increasingly difficult to distinguish from one another, yet are of equal importance in our visual culture. ⁣ ⁣ #TonyCokes #LouiseLawler #SethPrice #ThomasRuff #SondraPerry #DavidHorvitz #HanaMiletić #ForensicArchitecture #ThePhotographic https://www.instagram.com/p/B7tCE1CHhqL/?igshid=vn05esfqs3bv

IN THE BOOKSHOP: LOUISE LAWLER (OCTOBER FILES) edited by Helen Molesworth with Taylor Walsh (2013) - Louise Lawler has devoted her art practice to investigating the life cycle of art objects. Her photographs depict art in the collector’s home, the museum, the auction house, and the commercial gallery, on loading docks, and in storage closets. Her work offers a sustained meditation on the strategies of display that shape art’s reception and distribution. The cumulative effect of Lawler’s photographs is a silent insistence that context is the primary shaper of art’s meaning. Informed by feminism and institutional critique, Lawler’s witty, poignant, and trenchant photos frequently pay attention to a host of overlooked details—almost Freudian slips—that ineffably and tacitly shore up what we conventionally think of as art’s “power.” - This book includes the earliest published text on Lawler’s work; an examination of her ephemera (Lawler produced, among other things, matchbooks and paperweights); a rare interview with the artist, conducted by Douglas Crimp; a conversation between George Baker and Andrea Fraser on Lawler’s work; and essays by writers including Rosalind Krauss, Rosalyn Deutsche, and Helen Molesworth, the volume’s editor. The book traces the changing reception of Lawler’s work from early preoccupations with appropriation to later discussions of affect. - About the Editor Helen Molesworth is Chief Curator at the Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston. She edited Louise Lawler’s Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (looking back), published by the Wexner Center for the Arts and distributed by the MIT Press. - Available via our website and in the bookshop tomorrow. - #worldfoodbooks #louiselawler #octoberfiles #helenmolesworth #themitpress (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)

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