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In The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems (1974—75), Martha Rosler bridged the concerns of art with those of political documentary. The work, a series of twenty-one black-and-white photographs, twenty-four text panels and three blank panels, embraces the codes of the photo-text experiments of the period and applies them to the social reality of New York’s Lower East Side.

In this illustrated book, Steve Edwards carefully describes The Bowery and contextualises it in relation to the work of the San Diego Group, examines the prevailing view of the work as a critique of documentary, studies its relation to Jean-Luc Godard and other examples of political modernism, and concludes with a speculative insertion of The Bowery within the pastoral tradition.

Conceptual art --- Rosler, Martha, --- Rosler, Martha. --- Rosler, Martha --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Photography --- documentary photography --- maatschappijkritiek --- Conceptual art - United States --- Rosler, Martha, - 1943 --- -Conceptual art --- -Photography --- Art and society --- Art, American --- Photography, Artistic --- Bowery (New York, N.Y. : Street)

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Barber, Bruce --- Brisley, Stuart --- Knox, Sonia --- Odenbach, Marcel --- Bienvenue, Marcella --- Chitty, Elizabeth --- Rosenbach, Ulrike --- Rosler, Martha

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This paper is a starting point for untangling the ways how family photographs and found bits of text can be used to build narratives out of the private sphere. They are considered as objects that carry the values of memory and belonging, and as material that can be used to bring out to the public (collective) experiences of history that are often easily overlooked as being so marginal that they are irrelevant.We start with four photos found in my family archive, and from the memory of the oral stories of my grandmother. We then embark on a brief journey that has the objective of shedding light on how a photograph and a linguistic container connect in need of creating meaning and explaining beyond the image; And on the relations that unfold between the source (being it the subject or the owner of the family photo), the artist, and the public audience. The works of contemporary photographers Martha Rosler, Jim Goldberg, Lorna Simpson, and Gillian Wearing will support these reflections.

Simpson, Lorna --- Rosler, Martha --- Wearing, Gillian --- Goldberg, Jim --- Berger, John --- Sontag, Susan