"Spanning from the late 19th century to the present with images produced for scientific and artistic contexts, Picture Industry includes the work of more than 70 artists and practitioners. An essential anthology of historical and theoretical texts, it reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as a scientific tool a ..."
"Los Angeles-based artist and writer Walead Beshty (born 1976) started his Industrial Portraits series in 2008. He realizes them wherever he goes, asking all the art people he works with to pose in their working environment and working clothes: studio assistants, gallery staff, curators, lab technicians, critics, fellow artists, collectors, art handlers and even the -machines, - which contribute to an artwork's progress from studio to ga ..."
Ethics (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art) द्वारा WaleadBeshty, Iwona Blazwick Paperback, 240 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2015 द्वारा The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-52718-7, ISBN: 0-262-52718-9
"The boundary of a contemporary art object or project is no longer something that exists only in physical space; it also exists in social, political, and ethical space. Art has opened up to transnational networks of producers and audiences, migrating into the sphere of social and distributive systems, whether in the form of "relational aesthetics" or other critical reinventi ..."
"Published on the occasion of Jay DeFeo's (1929-1989) first exhibition at Mitchell-Innes & Nash featuring 50 key works spanning the years 1965-1989, this volume examines DeFeo's distinctive exploration of visual vocabulary, rich materiality and experimental process across the media of painting, drawing, photography and rarely-seen photocopy works. The catalogue features two double-page spreads of major paintings: "Lotus Eater" from 1974 ..."
Ethics(1st Edition) द्वारा WaleadBeshty, Whitechapel Gallery Paperback, 240 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2015 द्वारा Whitechapel Gallery ISBN-13: 978-0-85488-235-9, ISBN: 0-85488-235-9
"Art has thus become increasingly implicated in questions of ethics. Beshty evaluates the relation of ethics to aesthetics, and demonstrates how this encounter has become central to the contested space of much recent art."
"Los Angeles–based artist and filmmaker Morgan Fisher first achieved widespread recognition in the late 1960s and 1970s for a body of experimental films that deconstructed the language of cinema, both as raw material and as a set of production methods and technical procedures. Since the late 1990s, Fisher has focused primarily on painting (and the painting’s environment), and this volume is published in conjunction with the first solo mu ..."
WaleadBeshty Works in Exhibition 2011 - 2020 द्वारा Beshty, Walead, Walker, Hamza, Elcott, Noam Paperback, 376 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2020 द्वारा Verlag Der Buchhandlung Walther Konig ISBN-13: 978-3-96098-778-9, ISBN: 3-96098-778-1
"Moments spent in elevators, check-ins at airports, subway rides―these are all examples of the kind of “in-between” time that fascinates Walead Beshty and supplies so much of the material for his photographs. “In-between time” applies to civic space, too―depopulated modernist housing developments that sit precariously between evacuation and demolition (explored by Beshty in his Excursionist Views), plants, weeds and vegetation on isolate ..."
"Walead Beshty (born 1976) has long used photography as a tool to explore social conditions. In 2001, the artist began documenting the abandoned embassy of the defunct Iraqi Diplomatic Mission in the former East Berlin. This publication focuses on three related bodies of work that continue Beshty's engagement with the invisible territories of globalization."
""Photography Is Magic" draws together current ideas about the use of photography as an invaluable medium in the contemporary art world. Edited and with an essay by leading photography writer and curator Charlotte Cotton, this critical publication surveys the work of a diverse group of artists, many working at the borders of the "art world" and the "photography world," all of whom are engaged with experimental ideas concerning photograph ..."
"From the publishers of the hit exhibition catalogue Girls Night Out comes the Orange County Museum of Art's companion to the 2006 California Biennial, celebrating 31 of the most exciting emerging artists based in California today. The California Biennial is the only exhibition dedicated to new work made by the most innovative young artists in the state, one of the most important art centers in the world today. Artists include Scoli Acos ..."
"This new expanded edition gives a ten-year overview of Los Angeles-based artist Walead Beshty (born 1976), and elucidates his approach to photographic and sculptural representation. Most recently, Beshty's work has concentrated on themes of production, making use of mundane procedures like air travel or mailing a package."
"As the United States slowly emerges from its most significant economic downturn since the Great Depression, the CCA Wattis Institute reexamines the well-known photography program of the Farm Security Administration (1935-44). In More American Photographs, 12 contemporary photographers were commissioned to travel the United States, documenting its land and people. These new works are presented alongside historical images by original FSA ..."
"The image of a tortured genius working in near isolation has long dominated our conceptions of the artist's studio. Examples are abound: think Jackson Pollock dripping resin on a cicada carcass in his shed in the Hamptons. But times have changed; ever since Andy Warhol declared his art space a 'factory', artists have begun to envision themselves as the leaders of production teams, and their sense of what it means to be in the studio has ..."
"With a highly constructed, at times fetishistic approach to subjects, objects and materials, Los Angeles–based photographer Torbjørn Rødland (born 1970) makes photographs that are formally acute, conceptually playful and psychologically evocative. This publication offers a fresh perspective on his work. Walead Beshty’s text, “Skin Flicks,” focuses on Rødland’s approach to surfaces; Julie Boukobza considers a number of works in the exhib ..."
"Dieses Buch legt die gesammelte Arbeit des Architekturburos Johnston Marklee in Los Angeles seit seiner Grundung 1998 vor. Das Architekturburo zeichnet sich durch einen einheitlichen konzeptuellen Zugang zu jedem Projekt aus und ist international anerkannt fur ihre Einbindung von Praktiken aus der zeitgenossischen Kunst, ohne dass dabei die Verankerung in der Geschichte und den Grundfesten der Architektur verloren geht. Das Buch reflekt ..."
""Assembled from the wisdom of 36 legendary art teachers – all of them artists or critics at the top of their field – Akademie X: Lessons in Art + Life is an ideal curriculum for the aspiring artist.Each of the book’s "tutors" has provided a unique lesson that aims to provoke, inspire and stimulate the aspiring artist. These lessons cover some combination of the following: technical advice (e.g. don’t make a sculpture bigger than your st ..."