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Page 1: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES

reframing photography: essay 3

Page 2: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Reproductions of Western masterpieces in the Otsuka Museum of Art, Naruto City, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. Image Courtesy of Otsuka Museum Of Art.

Page 3: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Sigmar Polke, Salamander Stone. 1998, Mixed media on fabric. © Sigmar Polke. Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery.

Page 4: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Sherrie Levine, Sherrie Levine. After Walker Evans: 2 (Burroughs family portrait). 1981, Gelatin silver print; 33/4 x 51/16 inches. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, gift of the artist, 1995 (1995.266.2) Image © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Art Resource / Scala, Florence.

Page 5: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Walker Evans, Burroughs Family, Hale County, Alabama. 1936, Gelatin silver print, 19.1 x 24.1 cm. © Courtesy of George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film.

Page 6: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Francisco de Goya, King Charles IV of Spain and his Family. 1800, oil on canvas, 280 x 336 cm. Repository: Museo del Prado, Madrid. ˝ Erich Lessing / ART RESOURCE, N.Y. © 2010. Photo Scala, Florence.

Page 7: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Justinian and his Court. Apse, north wall, Church of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy, ca. 546–48, mosaic. © 2010 Photo Scala, Florence.

Page 8: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Genetic Savings & Clone Website. 2005. Image courtesy of Lou Hawthorne.

Page 9: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Albert Fenn, Installation view of the exhibition “Road to Victory”. MoMA, New York, May 21–October 4, 1942. Photograph, 7 x 101/2 inches. New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Digital Image Courtesy The Museum of Modern Art, New York. (IN182.7) © 2010. Digital image, The Museum of Modern Art, New York / Scala, Florence.

Page 10: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990. New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset printed in black, composition: 441/2 x 321/2 inches (113 x 82.5 cm). Purchased in part with funds from Arthur Fleischer, Jr. and Linda Barth Goldstein. Acc. n.: 103.1991. 10 x 12. © 2010. Digital image, The Museum of Modern Art, New York / Scala, Florence.

Page 11: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Mathew B. Brady, Abraham Lincoln (the “Cooper Union portrait”). 1860. Albumen print from wet collodion negative.

Page 12: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Barack Obama, MySpace page. July 2007. Reproduced with permission.

Page 13: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Army Girl, MySpace page. May 2009. Reproduced with permission.

Page 14: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Paul Outerbridge, Jr., Ide Collar. 1922. Gelatin silver print. © 2010 G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA.

Page 15: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

The Good Green Earth (advertisement for Heniz products). From LIFE magazine, February 15, 1937.

Page 16: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

BBC, In Pictures, August 28, 2009.

Page 17: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Carlo Carra, Manifestation Interventionniste. 1914. Collage, 1914, 38.5 x 30 cm

Page 18: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Romare Bearden, Farm Couple. Ca. 1965. Collage of various papers with paint, ink, and graphite on cardboard, 23.2 x 29.9 cm (91/8 x 113/4 inches). Anonymous lender. Art © Romare Bearden Foundation/DACS, London/VAGA, New York 2010.

Page 19: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Marion Post Wolcott, Kitchen in Negro tenant home on Marcella Plantation. Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi. Nov. 1939. Gelatin silver print. © Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection.

Page 20: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Betty Hahn, Road and Rainbow. 1971. Gum bichromate on fabric with stitching. Courtesy of the artist.

Page 21: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Betty Hahn, Cauliflower. 1972. Gum bichromate on fabric with stitching. Courtesy of the artist.

Page 22: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Edward Weston, Cabbage Leaf. 1931. Gelatin silver photograph, 19.2 x 24.0 cm. Collection Center for Creative Photography © 1981 Arizona Board of Regents.

Page 23: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Betty Hahn. Soft Daguerreotype. 1973. Xerox on synthetic silver fabric. Courtesy of the artist.

Page 24: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Joanne Leonard, Twins: Conjoined and Separated. 2003, glassine with gold paint, watercolor, scanned photographs, constellation map of Gemini, newspaper clippings. 17-inch diameter circle on 22-inch square glassine sheet. Courtesy of the artist.

Page 25: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Jarhead. 2005. Directed by Sam Mendes, Universal Studios

Page 26: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Andy Warhol, Green Disaster Ten Times. 1963. Image © Andy Warhol Foundation / CORBIS.

Page 27: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Ray Johnson, Green Hornet with Arman and Andy. 1976–80–81–85–86. Collage on illustration board, 15 x 11 inches, 38.1 x 27.9 cm. Courtesy of Kinz 1 Tillou Fine Art, Richard L. Feigen & Co., Estate of Ray Johnson.

Page 28: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Google Street View, showing Participants in Street with a View on Sampsonia Way, Pittsburgh, PA, 15212 (website captured on August 28, 2009).

Page 29: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Shizuka Yokomizo, Stranger (23). 2000. C-type print. Courtesy of the artist.

Page 30: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Charles Willson Peale, George Washington. 1772. Oil on canvas. © Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827) Washington University, St. Louis, USA / The Bridgeman Art Library

Page 31: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Unknown photographer, Portrait of a man in a military uniform, including a sword, medals, and epaulets. n.d. (ca. 1890–1920). Photogravures, 4.0 x 7.875 inches. The Schlesinger History of Women in America Collection, Photograph Number: A47-18-1. Courtesy of The Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

Page 32: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Chris Hondros, One Night in Tal Afar. January 2005. Color photograph. © Chris Hondros / Getty Images.

Page 33: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Yosuke Yamahata, Nagasak (Untitled, A-9-4). August 10, 1945. © Shogo Yamahata. Courtesy IDG Films.

Page 34: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Yosuke Yamahata, Nagasak (Untitled, A-13-20). August 10, 1945. © Shogo Yamahata. Courtesy IDG Films

Page 35: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Edward S. Curtis, The Eagle Catcher. 1908. Photographic print. © Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Edward S. Curtis Collection.

Page 36: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

The Third View Project, Timothy O’Sullivan, 1867, Crab’s Claw Peak, Western Nevada. (United States Geological Survey). Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe for the Third View Project, 1998. Karnak Ridge, Trinity Range, NV. Gelatin silver photographs, 1998

Page 37: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #43. 1979. Black and white photograph, 8 x 10 inches. © Cindy Sherman. Courtesy of the Artist, Metro Pictures, and The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica.

Page 38: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Chen Chieh-Jen, Revolt in the Soul and Body/A Way Going to An Insane City. 1996–99. Digital black and white photograph, 112 x 150 cm. Courtesy the artist and Chi-Wen Gallery.

Page 39: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Kristan Horton, Dr Strangelove Dr Strangelove: dr0018-s003-03. 2003-06, archival print, Dibond, 28 cm x 76 cm. Courtesy of Jessica Bradley Art 1 Projects.

Page 40: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Kristan Horton, Dr Strangelove Dr Strangelove: dr0105-s008-05. 2003-06, archival print, Dibond, 28 cm x 76 cm. Courtesy of Jessica Bradley Art 1 Projects.

Page 41: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Kristan Horton, Dr Strangelove Dr Strangelove: dr0657-s039-02. 2003-06, archival print, Dibond,28 cm x 76 cm. Courtesy of Jessica Bradley Art 1 Projects.

Page 42: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Eddie Adams, General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Vietcong prisoner, Nguyen Van Lem, on a Saigon street, February 1, 1968. Silver print, 8 x 10 inches. © AP/ Press Association Images.

Page 43: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Yasumasa Morimura, A Requiem: VIETNAM WAR 1968 – 1991. 2001. Gelatin silver print mounted on Alpolic, 120 x 150 cm (47.24 x 59.06 inches), Edition 5. Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris / Salzburg.

Page 44: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Vik Muniz, Memory Rendering of Saigon Execution of Vietcong Suspect. from the Best of Life series, 1989, photograph. © Vik Muniz / VAGA, New York / DACS, London 2010.

Page 45: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Kota Ezawa, Earth from Moon (1969). 2005. Lightbox, 22 x 28 inches. Drawing © 2006 Kota Ezawa. Courtesy Murray Guy, New York.

Page 46: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Nick Ut, Villagers Fleeing a Napalm Strike, village of Trang Bang, Vietnam, June 8. 1972. Gelatin silver print, 16 x 20 inches, © AP/Press Association Images

Page 47: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Zbigniew Libera, Nepal. 2003. Photography. Courtesy of Zbigniew Libera and Raster Gallery.

Page 48: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Markus Hansen and Virgil de Voldere Gallery, Philippe. 2006. C Type print.

Page 49: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Markus Hansen and Guggenheim Museum, Framboise, 2004. Video still.

Page 50: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Alexander Gardner, Dead Confederate Sharpshooter in the Devil’s Den, Gettysburg, Pa. July 1863, albumen print, © Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Civil War Photographs.

Page 51: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Liz Magor, Where An Army Gave Its Own Orders. 1991. Gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the artist.

Page 52: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Liz Magor, The Plans That Failed. 1991. Gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the artist.

Page 53: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Jeremy Deller, The Battle of Orgreave. 2001. Commissioned and produced by Artangel. Photos by Martin Jenkinson.

Page 54: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Jeremy Deller, The Battle of Orgreave. 2001. Commissioned and produced by Artangel. Photos by Martin Jenkinson.

Page 55: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Jeremy Deller, The Battle of Orgreave. 2001. Commissioned and produced by Artangel. Photos by Martin Jenkinson.

Page 56: reframing photography: essay 3 REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES · Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun). 1990.New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Stack of photolithographs, offset

Jeremy Deller, The Battle of Orgreave. 2001. Commissioned and produced by Artangel. Photos by Martin Jenkinson.

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