{"id":165,"date":"2011-10-01T21:57:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T07:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=165"},"modified":"2016-10-09T13:48:56","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T13:48:56","slug":"walead-beshty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"Walead Beshty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Walead_Beshty1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-167\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-167\" src=\"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Walead_Beshty1-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"Four-Sided Picture\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Walead_Beshty1-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Walead_Beshty1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve just done a review for <em>Source<\/em>&#8211;very short&#8211;of a catalogue of Beshty&#8217;s work called <em>Natural Histories<\/em>, a collaboration between a museum in Malmo, Sweden, and another in Madrid. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t have enough space to give examples, or do any kind of speculation, and I regretted that. \u00a0It seems like work to &#8220;talk&#8221; to, rather than to review. \u00a0I can imagine a situation in which one person talks or writes and another is making things, and they go back and forth, egg each other on. \u00a0Anyway this work seemed like a gentle and respectful dissenting voice&#8211;against most of what most of us accept about photography most of the time. \u00a0In fact it seemed to &#8220;frame&#8221; that belief rather well: he&#8217;s troubled by our willingness to accept photography as an abstraction; he wants to show it to us again, \u00a0as something very concrete, meaningful in a specific context. \u00a0It&#8217;s clear, honest, and salutary. \u00a0And sometimes visually &#8220;eloquent&#8221; as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just done a review for Source&#8211;very short&#8211;of a catalogue of Beshty&#8217;s work called Natural Histories, a collaboration between a museum in Malmo, Sweden, and another in Madrid. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t have enough space to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,176],"tags":[46,45,109,44],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aesthetics","category-creativity","tag-concrete-photography","tag-natural-histories","tag-source-magazine","tag-walead-beshty"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}