Picture industry : a provisional history of the technical image, 1844-2018 / edited, with an introduction by Walead Beshty ; foreword by Maja Hoffmann, Tom Eccles.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beshty, Walead, 1976- editor, writer of introduction.

Eccles, Tom, 1964- writer of foreword.

Hoffmann, Maja, 1956- writer of foreword.

Fondation LUMA, publisher.

Bard College. Center for Curatorial Studies, publisher.

Luma Arles, host institution.

Hessel Museum of Art, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--Exhibitions.

Photography.

Photography--History--Exhibitions.

History.

Photography--Philosophy--Exhibitions.

Photography, Artistic--Exhibitions.

Photography, Artistic.

Images, Photographic--Exhibitions.

Images, Photographic.

Image processing.

Photography--Printing processes.

Photography--Philosophy.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Essays.

Photobooks.

Physical Description:

863 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits, photographs ; 25 cm

Distribution:

Zürich : JRP Ringier Kunstverlag.

Other Title:

Provisional history of the technical image, 1844-2018

Place of Publication:

[Feldmeilen, Switzerland] : LUMA Foundation ; [Annandale-on-Hudson, New York] : Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, [2018]

Language Note:

Text in English.

Summary:

Curated by artist Walead Beshty, the exhibition Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as a scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on the viewer. The exhibition complexifies traditional accounts of the medium, drawing on its application within science and the humanities to contemporary art, and includes works and photographic documents by over 70 artists and practitioners spanning the late 19th century to the present. It posits a provisional, alternative history of the optical image, breaking with both the technologically deterministic approach of aesthetic formalism, and the semiotic fixations of postmodernism, and on this basis reflects anew on the contemporary condition of image production. Picture Industry considers not only the materiality of images and the technologies that form their reception, but also the conflicted social history that lies under their surfaces and shapes our complex contemporary image world.

Contents:

Foreword / Maja Hoffmann and Tom Eccles

Introduction: The commons in the age of its technological reproducibility / Walead Beshty

Taken from here to where it came from and taken to a place and used in such a manner that it can only remain as a representation of what it was where it came from (1980) / Lawrence Weiner

Introductory remarks and selected plates from Pencil of Nature (1844-46) / William Henry Fox Talbot

A scene in a library: The first photographically illustrated book (1998) / Carol Armstrong

The stereoscope and stereograph (1859) / Oliver Wendell Holmes

Selections from mechanism of human facial expression (1862) / Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne

Photographs of the high Rockies in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. CCXXXII, No.39, September 1869 / John Samson [likely a pseudonym of Timothy H. O'Sullivan]

Photography's discursive spaces (1986) / Rosalind E. Krauss

Naming the view (199

Alan Trachtenberg

United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel, volume III: Mining industry (1870) / James D. Hague and Clarence King

Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, Vol. 1 (1857) / William H. Emory

Prefatory note and preface to United States Geological Survey of the Territories, descriptive catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians (1877) / Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden and William Henry Jackson

Colorchromes from the Detroit Photographic Company (1892-1903) / William Henry Jackson

Carte de visite (1864) / Sojourner Truth

Introduction to Enduring Truths: Sojourner's Shadows and Substance (2015) / Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby

The golden Caribbean, Vol. II, No. 1, January 1904 / United Fruit Company

The evidence of things not photographed: Slavery and historical memory in the British West Indies (2011) / Krista Thompson^^^salind E. Krauss

The other half and how they live: Story in pictures [Reconstruction of a magic lantern slide lecture presented at the Sixth Annual Convention of Christian Workers] (1891) / Jacob Riis

How the other half lives: Studies among the tenements in Scribner's Magazine, Vol. VI, No. 6, December 1889 / Jacob Riis

Inquiries into human faculty and its development (1883) / Francis Galton

Physiological study of normal walking (1885) / Georges Gilles de la Tourette

Notes on gesture (2000) / Giorgio Agamben

Selections from Theoretical Study of Signalment (1896) / Alphonse Bertillon

Bertillon system of criminal identification [selected by Cameron Rowland] (2018) / National Law Enforecement website

Selection from Attitudes of Animals in Motion (1882) / Eadweard Muybridge

Selections from Animal Locomotion (1887) / Eadweard Muybridge

Iron horses: Leland Stanford, Eadweard Muybridge, and the industrialized eye (2005) / John Ott

Physiologie du mouvement: le vol des oiseaux (1890) / Étienne-Jules Marey

Chronophotography (1899) / Étienne-Jules Marey

Marey and the organization of work (1994) / Marta Braun

Selections of X-ray photographs form Journal of Electrochemistry (1896-97) / Wilhelm Röntgen

On New kind of rays (1896) / Wilhelm Röntgen

Injured right hand of workman in the Röntgen Rays in Medical Work (1897) / David Walsh

Still from Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895) / Louis and Auguste Lumière

Still from Employees Leaving Williamson's Factory, Lancaster; Still from Employees Leaving Messrs Vickers & Maxim's in Barrow (1901) / Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon Preface to Motion Study: A Method for Increasing the Efficiency of the Workman (1911) / Frank B. Gilbreth

Motion study photographs (1913-1917) / Frank B. Gilbreth

Radiography, cinematography and the decline of the lens (1992) / Lisa Cartwright and Brian Goldfarb

Selections from: Charities and The Commons, and The Survey, 1908-1913 / Lewis Hine

The Homestead Plant: Carnegie Steel Company in Homestead: The Households of a Mill Town, Vol. 4 (1910) / Lewis Hine

Production - Reproduction (1922) / László Moholy-Nagy

War against war! (1924) / Ernst Friedrich

Ernst Friedrich's pacifistic anarchsim (1987) / Douglas Kellner

Der Mensch als Industriepalast (1926) / Fritz Kahn

Selections from Das Leben des Menschen, Eine vokstümliche Anatomie, Biologie, Physiologie und Entwicklungeschichte des Menschen (1926-1931) / Fritz Kahn

Photogrpahy (1927) / Siegfried Kracauer

Perspective as symbolic form (1927 Erwin Panofsky

(Not) in place: The grid, or, cultural techniques of ruling spaces (2015) / Bernhard Siegert

Dictionary: Man in Documents 4 (1929) / Georges Bataille

Type 89 moving-image machine-gun camera, Kai 2, Serial No. 7967 manufactured by Rokuoh-sha [currently Konica Minolta Electronics Co., Ltd.] produced from 1933-44

Selections from Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung (1930-32) / John Heartfield

The work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility (Second version) (1935-36) / Walter Benjamin

There are no mass media (2003) / Bernhard Siegert

Julie Sander, great-grandson of August Sander, as recounted to Walead Beshty (2017)

Student of Philosophy [Erich Sander], 1926; Political prisoner [Erich Sander], 1943; Death Mask of Erich Sander, 1944 / August Sander

Images in spite of all (2008) / Georges Didi-Huberman

A mathematical theory of communication (1948) / Claude Shannon

Woman operating a Hollerith pantographic card-punching machine Harris and Ewing Studio [George W. Harris and Martha Ewing] (ca. 1915)

Computing machinery and intelligence (1950) / Alan Turing

Labor anonymous in Fortune Magazine, November 1946; Selections from Fortune Magazine, 1941-1962; Homes of Americans in Forturne Magazine, 1946 / Walker Evans

Walker Evans: The magazine work (2014) / David Campany

Nation horrified by murder of kidnapped Chicago youth in Jet Magazine, Vol. XIII, No. 19, Septemeber 15, 1955

Emmett Till ever after (2013 Darby English

The restraints: Open and hidden in LIFE Magazine, September 24, 1956; Selections from Ebony and LIFE Magazine, 1947-1968 / Gordon Parks

They fight a fire that won't go out in LIFE Magazine, May 17, 1963 / Charles Moore

Mechanical ("The Dogs' Attack is Negroes' Reward," from LIFE Magazine, May 17, 1963) (1964) / Andy Warhol

Race riot (1964) / Andy Warhol

Roentgenizdat [bootleg recordings on x-ray film] (ca. 1960s) / Unknown makers

The medium is the message (1964) / Marshall McLuhan

Poem, March 1966 in Aspen Magazine, No. 5+6, 1967 / Dan Graham

My works for magazine pages: A history of conceptual art, 1965-1969 (1985) / Dan Graham

Homes for America [photo reproduction of layout for magazine article] (1972) / Dan Graham

Selections from House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home (ca. 1967-1972) / Martha Rosler

Tron (Amputee) in Goodbye to All That, No. 3, October 13, 1970 / Martha Rosler13 Amarillo

Tall in Texas (1971) / Stephen Shore

Still from Phi Phenomenon (1968) / Morgan Fisher

Phi Phenomenon (1976) / Morgan Fisher

Preparation Plants from Coal Mines (1966-78) / Bernd and Hilla Becher

[Untitled] in January 5-13, 1969 / Douglas Huebler

Projects Class (1969) / David Askevold

Advertisements in Artforum Magazine, 1968-69 / Stephen Kaltenbach

Misunderstandings (A theory of Photography) (1970) / Mel Bochner

Still from Finally Got the News (1970) / Stewart Bird, Rene Lichtman, and Peter Gessner

Still from Hour of the Furnaces (1968) / Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino

Towards a third cinema: Notes and experiments for the development of a cinema of liberation in the Third World (1969) / Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino

Photograph and screen (1971) / Stanley Cavell

Ideological effects of the basic cinematographiec apparatus (1974) / Jean-Louis Baudry

Cover and preface to How To Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic (1975) / Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart

A declaration of dependence (1975) / Sarah Charlesworth

Washing/Tracks/Maintenance: Outside (1973) / Mierle Laderman Ukeles

Advertisement in Artforum Magazine, November 1974 / Lydia Benglis

Magazine Actions in Fiesta Magazine, Vol. 10, No. 7, 1976 / Cosey Fanni Tutti Still from Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1976) / Thom Andersen

Five notes for a phenomenology of the photographic image (1963) / Hubert Damisch

Mapplethorped: Art, photography, and the pornographic imagination (2016) / Richard Meyer

X portfolio (1977-78) / Robert Mapplethorpe

Photograpy en abyme (1978) / Craig Owens

Young workers (1978/1983) / Jeff Wall

Artist statement from Horror Pleni: Pictures in New York Today (1980) / Ericka Beckman

Selections from Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (1982) / Roland Barthes

Allegorical procedures: Appropriation and montage in contemporary art (1982) / Benjamin H. D. Buchloch

Selections from Travel Posters (1981/2009) / Barbara Bloom

After Walker Evans: 1-22 (1981) / Sherrie Levine

Collection of Ten Plaster Surrogates (1982/1990) / Allan McCollum

Arrangements of pictures in October, Vol. 26, 1983 / Louise Lawler^^^/ Cosey Fanni Tutti Still from Sans Soleil (1983) / Chris Marker

Wild Dead (1984) / Gretchen Bender

Towards a philosophy of photography (1983) / Vilém Flusser

Still from Standard Gauge (1984) / Morgan Fisher

Standard gauge (1984) / Morgan Fisher

Introduction to Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (1986) / Friedrich A. Kittler

Still from Handsworth Songs (1986) / Black Audio Film Collective

Black Audio Film Collective : John Akomfrah, Reece Auguiste, Lina Gopaul, and Avril Johnson (1987) / Coco Fusco

Selections from Cray at Chippewa Falls: Photographs by Lee Friedlander (1987) / Lee Friedlander

Ektachrome Archive (1986-96) / Lyle Ashton Harris

Lyle Ashton Harris on Ektachrome Archive (1986-1996), as told to Alpesh Kantilal Patel (2015)

Scripts from Monodramas (1987-1991) / Stan Douglas

News hour viewer call-in segment regarding original broadcast of Stan Douglas's Monodramas (1992) / BCTV

Herald Tribune, January 18-February 28, 1991 (1991) / Sarah Charlesworth

The gesture of video (1991) / Vilém Flusser

Red Portfolio (1993) / Glenn Ligon

Self portrait (James Dean) (1993) / Jack Pierson Hiatus: Work in progress lecture (1993) / Ericka Beckman

Video and resistance: Against documentaries (1994) / Critical Art Ensemble

"Can you be BLACK and look at this?": Reading the Rodney King videos (1994) / Elizabeth Alexander

Being the subject of art (1995 ) / bell hooks

Still from Workers Leaving the Factory (1995) / Harun Farocki

Workers leaving the factory (2004) / Harun Farocki

Automation of sight: From photography to computer vision (1996) / Lev Manovich

Selections from Case History (1997-1998) / Boris Mikhailov

Case history (1999) / Boris Mikhailov

Selections from Venezia Marghera series (1999/2011) / Lewis Baltz

Strike Objects (1999) / Jean-Luc Moulène

Selections from Inflight Magazine, 2000 / Johan Grimonprez

Post-documentary, post-photography? (2001) / Martha Rosler

schema: Aquafresh plus Crest with whitener; schema: Aquafresh plus Crest with Scope (2003) / Kelley Walker Civilian (adjusted to fit) (2010/2011) / Louise Lawler

Black Mo'nin' (2003) / Fred Moten

Orange (2004) / de Rijke/de Rooij

Stills from Eye/Machine, I, II, and III (2001-2003) / Harun Farocki

Phantom images (2004) / Harun Farocki

Live Evil (Kuala Lumpur) (2003) / Paul Pfeiffer

Digital Video Effect: "Holes" (2003) / Seth Price

The Full Ediiton of Smoke and Mirrors 24A (2006) / Eileen Quinlan

Protocol (2006) / Alexander R. Galloway

Documentary uncertainty (2007) / Hito Steyerl

Supplement '14 (Mixed Typologies) #6 (2014) / Christopher Williams

Christopher Williams in convesation with Mark Godfrey (2007)

Declassification (2018) / United States Department of Defense website

From the redaction paintings series (2007) / Jenny Holzer

The civil contract of photography (2008) / Ariella Azoulay

Still from Episode III: Enjoy Poverty (2008) / Renzo Martens

Toward a new institutional critique: A conversation with Renzo Martens (2012) / T.J. Demos

Still from Exit (Bath Iron Works, July 7-11, 2008, Bath, Maine) (2008) / Sharon Lockhart

On compression (2008) / Cory Arcangel

Repression and the information boom (2005) / Zuhair al-Jezairy

Redistribution (video transcript) (2010) / Seth Price

Dailies from Rythm Mastr (2010) / Kerry James Marshall

Still from In Free Fall (2010) / Hito Steyerl

In free fall: A thought experiment on vertical perspective (2011) / Hito Steyerl

Photography and the law: Five groundbreaking cases of photography in litigation (2011) / Daniel McClean

Still from The Unstable Object (2011) / Daniel Eisenberg

Still from Workers Leaving the Googleplex (2011) / Andrew Norman Wilson)

Still from Touching Reality (2012) / Thomas Hirschhorn Why is important

today

to show and look at images of destroyed human bodies? (2012) / Thomas Hirschhorn

You've lost that loving feeling: RinekeDijkstra after empathy (2012) / Johanna Burton

Diane Arbus: A printed Retrospective, 1960-1971 (2012) / Pierre Leguillon

Anonymous needs and desires (Various Castoffs: Ceramic Tile, Pototo Chips, Garlic, Men's Socks, Blackberry, iPod, Baby Food, Perfume, Chocolate, and Cigarette) (2012) / Liz Glynn

Truth Study Center (2016) / Wolfgang Tillmans

The Tower (2015) / Hito Steyerl

In Defense of Representation (2015) / Tristan Garcia

Great things never come from comfort zones in i-D Magazine, No. 336, 2015 / Wolgang Tillmans

Infrastructuralism (2015) / John Durham Peters

The distributed image (2015) / Peter Osborne

Untitled (2016) / Isa Genzken

Parasagittal Brain (2013) / Yngve Holen

Flint is family in Elle Magazine, Septemeber 2016 / La Toya Ruby Frazier The Phatasmagoric dispositif: An assembly of bodies and images in real time and space (2016) / Noam M. Elcott

Handpunch (2014-2015) / Cameron Rowland

Love is the message, the message is death (2016) / Arthure Jafa

Love is the message, the plan is death (2017) / Arthure Jafa and Tina Campt

Martha Rosler in conversation with Walead Beshty (2017)

Stephen Shore in conversation with Walead Beshty (2017)

Stan Douglas in conversation with Walead Beshty (2016)

Hito Steyerl in conversation with Walead Beshty (2017)

James Merle Thomas in conversation with Walead Beshty (2018).

Notes:

On occasion of the exhibition "Picture Industry" held at Luma Arles, October 12, 2018-January 6, 2019. Exhibition was previously shown in different form at Luma Arles, July 14-October 24, 2016 and at the Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, June 24-December 15, 2017.

"Picture Industry" : October 12, 2018-January 6, 2019, Luma Arles, Arles, France.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

On the occasion of the exhibition "Picture Indestry" held at the Hessel Museum of Art, June 24 - December 15, 2017

ISBN:

9783037645024

3037645024

OCLC:

1019632564