1973 | United States | Experimental

The Meaning of Various Photographs to Ed Henderson--1

  • English 14 mins
  • Director | John Baldessari
  • Writer | John Baldessari
  • Producer | John Baldessari

STATUS: Released

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Baldessari presents photographs to his friend Ed Henderson and asks him to reconstruct the meaning of the image. In each case, Baldessari's strategy is to appropriate an existing image and remove it from its context in order to deconstruct the process of interpretation, and call the supposed objectivity of interpretation into question. The tape implicates the viewer in Ed Henderson's groundless exegesis, as he hypothesizes about the meaning of several photographs, speculating on their actual or staged reality.

Conceptualism Photography Interpretation Media Perception
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