Dear Collective Wisdom,
I am trying to track down the following to purchase, borrow, or
obtain a photocopy facsimile.
The following footnote is taken from an
essay by Alan Sekula that appeared in Lew Thomas's Photography and
Language (1976). In the footnote Sekula refers to exhibitions held at
the Long Beach Museum of Art, I am guessing in 1975 or 1976, by the
photographers Fred Lonidier and Philip Steinmetz:
"This article originally appeared in a
catalogue accompanying a pair of one-person exhibitions at the Long
Beach Museum of Art: Fred Lonidier's Health and Safety Game and
Philip Steinmetz's Somebody's Making a Mistake. David Ross, the
museum's director of television and film, curated the exhibition.
Early on, the decision was made to produce an exhibition catalog that
worked against the high art fetish of limited 'quality reproduction'.
That is, the catalogue's form (newsprint, lots of
critical text) and presentation (it was both used as an
exhibition announcement and was available for free at the museum) were
intended polemically. Following Walter Benjamin, these artists see the
political value of photography in its reproducability and it its
"bracketing" with speech or text." (Sekula, in Thomas
1976, p.14)
I am trying to pin down the actual dates of
these exhibitions and find a copy of the exhibition catalog referred
to in the footnote. I suspect it is not a book, per se, but some sort
of folded newsprint-type flyer (oversize?) that would have been mailed
out. This is for my personal research on American photography in the
1970s.
Regards to all,
Peter Blank
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