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The Meaning of Various News Photos to Ed Henderson

The Meaning of Various News Photos to Ed Henderson

John Baldessari

1973 · 15m

The Meaning of Various News Photos to Ed Henderson

January 1, 197315m
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Baldessari introduces eight news photos to Ed Henderson — ranging in subject matter from geese at the zoo to an accidental electrocution — and asks him to identify them. Henderson's associative responses suggest the projection of unconscious desires and fears onto these arbitrary images, which are removed from their original contexts. The implied narratives that emerge from the seemingly random juxtapositions and sequences of photographs give rise to questions of manipulation, inference and meaning.

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