Words Without Pictures

Words Without Pictures is an important contemporary photography project and publication co-sponsored by curator Charlotte Cotton and artist Alex Klein. [One, two]

Planning background and form

Origin: Launched in November 2007 by the Photography Department of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

Core concept: For a consecutive year (one article per month), artists, educators, art critics or curators are invited to write short articles on emerging photography or the transformation of photography ** unillustrated ** opinion articles.

Online interaction: Each article is published on the official website for a month, and with an open discussion area, it gathers public and private responses from students, bloggers, art critics and artists from all walks of life. [1,2,3,4]

Theme and discussion category

Discuss the specificity of media (Medium specificity), conceptual art, network thinking, abstract photography, and digital visual culture.

Check the value and flow of photos in the process of analogy (neal) to digital capture and dissemination. [1]

Book publication

All the articles, discussions and related dialogues of the project will be collected and published later.

The paper version published by Aperture is included in the Aperture Ideas series.