Walead Beshty (born 1976) has long used photography as a tool to explore social conditions. In 2001, the artist began documenting the abandoned embassy of the defunct Iraqi Diplomatic Mission in the former East Berlin. This publication focuses on three related bodies of work that continue Beshty's e[...]

This new expanded edition gives a ten-year overview of Los Angeles-based artist Walead Beshty (born 1976), and elucidates his approach to photographic and sculptural representation. Most recently, Beshty's work has concentrated on themes of production, making use of mundane procedures like air trave[...]

Proposing an alternative history of the optical image, Picture Industry explores the materiality of images and the technologies that govern their reception.Spanning from the late 19th century to the present with images produced for scientific and artistic contexts, Picture Industry includes the work[...]