In the 1960s, artist Robert Irwin famously forbade publication of photographs of his paintings — the spare abstractions of colored lines against colored fields, the tiny dots covering slightly bowed canvases to create a cloud of hazy gray atmosphere and the plastic or aluminum discs that stand out from the wall but visually appear as orbs that hover in space, like mysterious floating eyeballs.
Uta Barth: Uta Barth’s fuzzy photographs come into stirring focus in a major Getty show
Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, February 7, 2023
