*Standard condition for its age, overall rubbing to dust jacket, creasing to spine; plates fine.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition Ordinary Pictures held at the Walker Art Center in Minnesota in 2016, this catalog explores contemporary visual culture through the lens of stock photography—images we unconsciously consume every day on the internet and in advertising.
Focusing on stock photos, which at first glance may seem impersonal and merely "ordinary pictures," the book meticulously investigates the production and distribution systems of the industrial image economy that lie behind them. It features numerous works that critique and mimic these systems within an artistic framework. The publication includes contributions from a diverse, cross-generational group of artists, ranging from masters such as Andy Warhol and John Baldessari, to figures like Jiro Takamatsu, Richard Prince, and Steve McQueen, as well as contemporary photographers including Stephen Shore and Wolfgang Tillmans.
The exhibition includes works: Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, Steven Baldi, Mary Ellen Bartley, Lucas Blalock, Tom Burr, Sarah Charlesworth, Anne Collier, Phil Collins, Michael de Courcy, Liz Deschenes, John Divola, Aleksandra Domanović, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Morgan Fisher, Hollis Frampton, Jack Goldstein, Rachel Harrison, Robert Heinecken, Leslie Hewitt, William E. Jones, Owen Land, Elad Lassry, Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine, Guthrie Lonergan, Elizabeth McAlpine, Steve McQueen, Scott Nedrelow, Albert Oehlen, Jack Pierson, Peter Piller, Seth Price, Richard Prince, Amanda Ross-Ho, Edward Ruscha, Stephen Shore, Sturtevant, Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel, Jiro Takamatsu, Mungo Thomson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Tseng Kwong Chi, Julia Wachtel, Andy Warhol, and Christopher Williams.
