Abraham Adams

Nothing in MoMA, Punctum Books, 2018

Nothing in MoMA is a series of photographs capturing areas in the Museum of Modern Art where no art, written language, or people were present. Read the book (open access) ↗

“Museums are engines of attention. They solicit it and they monetize it. … Nothing in MoMA. This is vertiginous and uncanny and wrong.”

— David Joselit, introduction to Nothing in MoMA (Punctum Books, 2018)
Nothing in MoMA, 2018
Nothing in MoMA, 2018. Digital color photograph, 20 × 30 cm.
Nothing in MoMA, 2018
Nothing in MoMA, 2018. Digital color photograph, 20 × 30 cm.
Nothing in MoMA, Punctum Books, 2018
Nothing in MoMA, Punctum Books, 2018. Artist’s book, 90 pp., 75 figures, 5 × 8 in.
Nothing in MoMA, 2018
Nothing in MoMA, 2018. Digital color photograph, 20 × 30 cm.
Nothing in MoMA, 2018
Nothing in MoMA, 2018. Digital b&w photograph, 20 × 30 cm.
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