Cannot wait to go see the John Baldessari exhibition at The Met! It's on my weekend must do list. "Baldessari (b. 1931, National City, California) turned from an early career in painting toward photographic images that he combined with text, using the freeways, billboards, and strip malls of Southern California as his frequent sources. In his groundbreaking work of the late 1960s, he transferred snapshots of banal locales around his hometown onto photo-sensitized canvases and hired a sign painter to label them with their locations or excerpts from how-to books on photography."
All images and quote from The Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
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