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The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems - martha rosler The pictures were taken by Rosler along the Bowery, a famous street in the lower part of Manhattan The neighborhood had for decades been widely identified with alcoholism and transiency, but also for lofts rented by artists, as well as clubs and small theaters
Smarthistory – Martha Rosler, The Bowery in Two Inadequate . . . The human-free cityscapes of Rosler’s The Bowery could be seen as part of this trajectory, however it is important to underscore that Rosler took aim at the documentary tradition in total, as well as the museum’s effort to turn documentary photography into art
The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems | Hammer Museum By addressing questions of how to represent dimensions of social class yet refusing the visual and verbal tropes of vagrancy and poverty, this work points to the tendency of documentary photography to generalize, criminalize, or victimize
Martha Rosler, The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive . . . Rosler juxtaposes a sequence of black-and-white photographs taken in the Bowery, a Manhattan skid-row neighborhood, with words and phrases used to describe alcoholics, drunkenness, and alcoholism
The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems (1974 – 1975 . . . “The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems” is a conceptual artwork created by Martha Rosler between 1974 and 1975 It belongs to the genre of photo-installation and is recognized as part of the Conceptual Art movement