"Words are just a way we communicate. Images are a way we communicate. And I couldn't figure out why they had to be in different baskets."
"Portrait (Self) #1 as control + 11 Alterations by Retouching and Airbrushing" (1974)
"Portrait (Self) #1 as control + 11 Alterations by Retouching and Airbrushing," 1974
12 color photographs on museum board, 14 x 11 inches each
© John Baldessari
Courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
12 color photographs on museum board, 14 x 11 inches each
© John Baldessari
Courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
"I’m not looking for the normal stuff. Or I notice things that people don’t normally notice. Actually, I’ve said to my students, "Don’t look at things. Look between two things and see what you notice." That’s not a normal way to look."
-John Baldessari
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