Uta Barth (MOCA, Los Angeles Catalogue, Reissue), Limited Edition

BARTH, Uta, SMITH, Elizabeth A.T.

ISBN 10: 0971368104 / ISBN 13: 9780971368101

Published by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) and St. Ann's Press, Los Angeles and West Hollywood, California, 2002

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First edition thus (St. Ann's Press reissue). Limited slipcased, hardcover edition of 100 copies, signed, dated 2002 and numbered (this being #67/100) on the title page by Barth. Hardcover. Photographically illustrated paper-covered boards; no dust jacket as issued; contained in a paper-covered slipcase. Photographs by Uta Barth. Edited by Russell Ferguson. Essay by Elizabeth A.T. Smith. Designed by Cindy Estes. Includes a bibliography. 54 pp., with 38 four-color plates. 9-1/2 x 8-3/4 inches. Originally published on the occasion of the 1995 exhibition Uta Barth, curated by Elizabeth A.T. Smith, at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, as part of the museum's Focus Series. Fine. A mint copy. Signed by Author.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Uta Barth (MOCA, Los Angeles Catalogue, Reissue), Limited Edition
• Publisher: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) and St. Ann's Press, Los Angeles and West Hollywood, California
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0971368104
• ISBN 13: 9780971368101
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket as issued
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • About Photography
  • Fabricated/Staged
  • Abstraction
  • Photograph as Object
  • Limited Editions & Prints

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Synopsis

Often blurred or with only one element rendered sharply, clinging to the margin of the composition, Uta Barth's deceptively simple photographs of ordinary, ambiguous places are both elegant and challenging. Walls, windows, patches of light on a rug, the glow of an out-of-focus glance toward the horizon: all these provoke phenomenological reflections on perception and subjectivity, often suspending a viewer in the midst of the customary attempt to make sense of what is being seen, to reduce it to an accessible package of associations and meaning. "Certain expectations are unfulfilled: expectations of what a photograph normally depicts, of how we are supposed to read the space in the image, of how a picture normally presents itself on the wall," Barth has said. "This kind of questioning and reorientation is the point of entry and discovery, not only in a cognitive way, but in an almost visceral, physical and personal sense." This comprehensive monographic volume presents a definitive overview of Barth's works, fully illustrated with more than 300 full-color reproductions, spanning from her earliest photographs to her most recent. New texts by Russell Ferguson, former Chief Curator of the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles; Holly Myers, art critic and writer; and renowned scholar Jonathan Crary provide critical perspectives on the work of this visionary artist.
Born in Berlin in 1958, and now resident in Los Angeles, Uta Barth is represented in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim, the Whitney, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Tate in London. In 2007 Barth was named a Broad Art Foundation Fellow.