Mel Bochner
[Artist, b. 1940, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, lives in New York.]
Photography Cannot Record Abstract Ideas
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Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism… and as things turned out, it was.
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In 1967 there was no place for photography in a contemporary art gallery. It was almost impossible to get an art dealer to look at, let alone exhibit, anything photographic.
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