Karen Knorr's Photography Questions Visual Codes
In a 1986 article for artpress, Elisabeth Lebovici examines Karen Knorr's critical photography, which interrogates the codes involved in reading an image. Lebovici reflects on Knorr's "posed arrangements" to explore the concept of code itself.
Key facts
- Karen Knorr's work belongs to critical photography genre
- Her work questions the code used in reading an image
- Elisabeth Lebovici wrote the article
- Article published in artpress in October 1986
- Lebovici reflects on Knorr's 'posed arrangements'
- The reflection is on the notion of code itself
Entities
Artists
- Karen Knorr
- Elisabeth Lebovici
Institutions
- artpress
Sources
- artpress —