Media theorist Marshall McLuhan's claim "that the 'content' of any medium is always another medium" finds new resonance in the printed publication's migration to digital media, an idea which informs much of the work in the "The "New Photography 2009" show at MoMA, Mused about last week with reference to Sterling Ruby's work. The idea is engaged, perhaps to greatest effect, in Carter Mull's 2009 c-print Eleven (courtesy of Marc Foxx), a manipulated image of the front page of the Los Angeles Times, which becomes an alien artifact. In the same show, Leslie Hewitt's Riffs on Real Time engages similar ideas with old issues of Ebony. Kelley Walker's King magazine scans such as Aquafresh plus Crest with Whitening Expressions (Regina Hall) come to mind, as does a work to be featured in the upcoming vol. 13, Matthew Day Jackson's LIFE, June 12, 1944. Print might not be quite dead, but the printed periodical is clearly shifting from medium to content.
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