Documentary Photography and the Representation of Life on the Streets in Two Works by Martha Rosler and Jeff Wall: Ethical and Aesthetic Considerations

Four decades separate Martha Rosler’s The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems (1974-1975) from Jeff Wall’s Approach (2014), two representations of life on the streets. In the 1970s, Martha Rosler, among others, sought to define and practice documentary photography in ways that would invite...

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Main Author: Gwen Cressman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut des Amériques 2019-03-01
Series:IdeAs
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ideas/5233
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