Words Without Pictures

Words Without Pictures was originally conceived by curator Charlotte Cotton and artist Alex Klein as a means of creating spaces for discourse around current issues in photography. Every month for a year, beginning in November 2007, an artist, educator, critic or curator was invited to contribute a short unillustrated essay about an aspect of emerging photography. Each piece was available on the Words Without Pictures website for one month and was accompanied by a discussion forum focused on its specific topic. Over the course of its month-long “life,” each essay received both invited and unsolicited responses from a wide range of interested parties. All of these essays, responses and other provocations are gathered together here.

November 2007/Essay
Qualifying Photography as Art, or, Is Photography All It Can Be?
Christopher Bedford

January 2008/Essay

Online Photographic Thinking

Jason Evans

February 2008/Essay

foRm

Kevin Moore

March 2008/Essay

Too Drunk To Fuck (On the Anxiety of Photography)

Mark Wyse

April 2008/Essay

Remembering and Forgetting Conceptual Art

Alex Klein

May 2008/Essay

Who Cares About Books?

Darius Himes

June 2008/Essay

Minor Threat

Charlie White

July 2008/Essay

Process, Content, and Dissemination: Photography and Music

Charlotte Cotton

August 2008/Essay

A Picture You Already Know

Sze Tsung Leong

September 2008/Essay

Lost Not Found: The Circulation of Images in Digital Visual Culture

Maria Olson

October 2008/Essay

Abstracting Photography

Walead Beshty

November 2008/Essay

Photography and Abstraction

George Baker

WWP can be found HERE