In this lecture series we will be looking at key practitioners and bodies of work recognised as significant interventions in their fields.
Photography: Martha Rosler
Creator of "The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems"
She refuses to objectify those who are suffering from poverty, neglect and the poor in her photographs. She began to address the question in an essay called "In around and after thoughts"
A set of photographs with one word texts which described the image, words included tipsy, loopy, bent etc. Although no actual poor subjects were included. She wanted to describe the scene rather than objectify the people that went there and lived there.
It seems that the words were standing in for the people, the photographs in a way stand in for the state a person might be in when under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
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