When Mel Bochner began producing photographs, he explored historical and critical writings on medium and found that “the more I read, the more I began to see it all as a colossal misunderstanding.” This artwork juxtaposes quotations from his reading that present contradictory views of the medium and its relationship to reality and reproduction with a photograph: a negative of the artist’s forearm and hand alongside a measuring stick (a symbol of verifiable fact).
- By Mel Bochner (American, 1940–2025)
- Dated 1970
- Rights: Copyrighted
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Culture
America
Medium
offset lithograph
Genre
Photograph
Department
Photography
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