At the Edge of the Decipherable: Recent Photographs by Uta Barth, MOCA Catalogue
Barth, Uta - Photographs; Essay by Elizabeth A.T. Smith
Language: English
Published by Museum of Contemporary Art / St. Ann's Press, Los Angeles, 2002
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SIGNED. Special limited edition hardcover. Fine in a Very Good+ slipcase which has a little soiling. Hardcover in publisher's matching slipcase, no dj as issued. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, BOXED. At the Edge of the Decipherable: Recent Photographs by Uta Barth. 56 pages; 24 full-page color photographic reproductions plus 3 text illustrations; 9.5 x 8.5 inches. SIGNED BY BARTH, numbered and dated. From a signed and numbered edition limited to 100 hardcover copies, this being #28. Since 1994, Uta Barth has been creating series of photographs which consist of blurred images generated by focusing the camera on an unoccupied foreground. This book is a new version of the long out-of-print catalog which was published on the occasion of Barth's first major museum exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in 1996.
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- Title
- At the Edge of the Decipherable: Recent Photographs by Uta Barth, MOCA Catalogue
- Author
- Barth, Uta - Photographs; Essay by Elizabeth A.T. Smith
- Publisher
- Museum of Contemporary Art / St. Ann's Press, Los Angeles
- Publication year
- 2002
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0971368104
- ISBN 13
- 9780971368101
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About the Author
Elizabeth A.T. Smith is the Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and a former curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Her writings have appeared in "Cindy Sherman: Retrospective, The Architecture of R.M. Schindler," and " Matta in America", and she is the editor of "Blueprints for Modern Living."
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