Walid Raad Miraculous Beginnings (French edition) - Softcover

Walid Raad

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0854881905 ISBN 13: 9780854881901

Publisher: Whitechapel Gallery, 2004

Synopsis

What is a photographic image? What type of record does it provide? Can a photograph ever tell the truth or just provide a semblance of reality? There are but some of the questions artist Walid Raad has been investigating for the past 20 years in a practice that encmpasses photography, film and video, sculpture, installation and performance.

About this title

Review:

Walid Raad...makes elaborate artistic fictions with a wry and whimsical sense of humor delivered in a deadpan style worthy of Borges.--Christopher Lyon "Bookforum "

About the Author:

Eva Respini is the Barbara Lee Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and former Curator in the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Stuart Comer is the Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art at MoMA.

Barry Flood is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Humanities at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Whitechapel Gallery
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0854881905
• ISBN 13: 9780854881901
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 141