Words without pictures
By: [editor, Alex Klein ; initial concept, Charlotte Cotton]
Contributors: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Edition: 1st Aperture ed.
Publisher: Aperture; Thames & Hudson [distributor]
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 501
ISBN-13: 9781597111423
Subjects: Philosophy; Artistic Photography
Description: "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.
Notes: "November 2007-February 2009, Los Angeles County Museum of Art"--P. following t.p.

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