For our second show, we’ll be reviewing Lewis Baltz’s seminal essay, “Photography in the 1970s: Too Young to Rock, Too Old to Die.” For those reading ahead of the podcast, you can download the essay below (on minimalevent.com).
Show Notes:
- Rauschenberg: The 1/4 Mile
- Susan Sontag: On Photography
- Rereading: Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes
- How Bruce Nauman pushed photography forward
- Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before, Michael Fried
- Zabriskie Point’ Trailer restored by MQR
- Alec Soth
South Corner, Riccar America Company, 3184 Pullman, Costa Mesa, 1974
Gelatin Silver, © Lewis Baltz
2nd Street East and South Main Street, Kalispell, Montana, August 22, 1974
C-print, © Stephen Shore
William Eggleston’s Greenwood, Mississippi, 1973
Dye-Transfer, © William Eggleston
Twentysix Gasoline Stations, 1963
Artist Book, © Edward Ruscha
Water Towers, 1972-2009
Silver Gelatin, © Estate of Bernd Becher & Hilla Becher / Photo © Tate
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