Walead Beshty
Walead Beshty
Walead Beshtyis a Los Angeles-based artist and writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
CountryUnited States of America
photography discovery desire
[X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the desire to domesticate time (cinema), to preserve and capture the surface of the fleeting (photography), to see inside (x-ray).
applies certain extremely floor goes history means
It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor or a pedestal, and loosely applies to a certain history of the use of that term.