In "From the Dandruff Portrait Series," inspired by Vik Muniz's tricky conceptual photographs of photographs that he has recreated in dust, Mr. Michals presents a large dollar sign fashioned of white particulate matter on a black ground.
A retrospective of Williams's conceptual photographs, The Production Line of Happiness, has just opened at London's Whitechapel Gallery, following runs at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago.
In the same consumerist groove, White Columns has a small selection of Susan Jennings's conceptual photographs, which look abstract but are actually close-ups of dollar bills and fat cells.
Not to mention that art history is a rich jungle of naked bodies ― from Renaissance nudes to feminist conceptual photographs ― and not being able to share them online is a major bummer. .
Neal Slavin's fantastic mid-'70s post-conceptual photographs of organizations — the "International Twins Association" or the über-photogenic stable of Wilhelmina Models — predict much of the work on view at galleries like Julie Saul or Yancey Richardson.
Cool, conceptual color photographs, videos and an installation by this Israeli-born artist explore the intersection of life and death via a visual exegesis of bread, whose etymological root in Hebrew relates to the word for war.
The results, offered in a dry Conceptual text-photograph format, are informative, amusing and philosophically intriguing -- and are further enhanced when the Storefront has its many doors swung open to the spring weather (Smith).
Nowhere does this stranglehold feel more suffocating than in the last several galleries of the permanent collection displays at the Museum of Modern Art, where the art of the 1960s and '70s dwindles down to an attenuated, largely enervated group of Conceptual texts, photographs and monochromatic paintings.
