Photography and Collaboration by Daniel Palmer

Author:Daniel Palmer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Figure 4.1Douglas Huebler, Duration Piece #5, New York, April 1969, 1969. Photographs, statement. ©Douglas Huebler/ARS. Licensed by Viscopy, 2016. Courtesy of Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.

Clearly, the resulting photographs are not important on their own. Indeed from a pictorial point of view it is hard to imagine more banal images, in the sense that composition appears random and nothing of obvious interest is happening within the frame. Huebler regularly spoke of wishing to empty out the photograph of conventional content, in line with his minimalist-inspired ambition “simply to state the existence of things in terms of time and/or place.” Huebler famously claimed of his working method, in a statement accompanying a 1969 group show in Germany:

I use the camera as a “dumb” copying device that only serves to document whatever phenomena appears before it through the conditions set by a system. No “aesthetic” choices are possible. Other people often make the photographs. It makes no difference.

(Alberro 2003: 77)

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