An installation consisting of photography, video and sculpture examining the contradictions of the American past as well as the ways in which the media shape and distort our perceptions of cultural events. Essay by David Joselit with text by Warren Neidich. Introduction by Ron Platt and Anita Doutha.

“Warren Neidich’s photographic works embody contradictions which are both “internal” and “external” to photography. Technology and history (including the technology of history and the history of technology) are interwoven into counterfeit objects which masquerade as “historical,” “authentic” and “natural,” while holding within them key or keys to their status as “contemporary,” “artificial,” and “constructed facts. Neidich’s intention is to collapse — or at least identify — photography’s long-standing relationship with history and to literally de-naturalize it.” — David Joselit