• Penelope Umbrico
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  • Bibliography

• Work :
  • Learning from eBay
  • 53.6 Million Metric Tons of E-Waste 2020
  • Clouds/Screen
  • Sun/Screen (coloring book)
  • Monument
  • Sun/Screen/Scan
  • Screen to Screen
  • Everyone’s Photos Any License
  • Grand Central Four photographs
  • RANGE
  • 136 Mini Film Cameras
  • Signals Still
  • Broken Sets / Bad Display
  • Screen Sun
  • Out of Order - Used Office
  • Sideways Tvs
  • Universal Remotes
  • Campus Surplus
  • Zenith Replacement Parts
  • Pirouette for CRT
  • Eclipses
  • 229 One Hour Photo Labs
  • Sunset Portraits
  • Suns from Sunsets from Flickr
  • TVs from Craigslist
  • Alex
  • Milk Splash
  • Sun Burn (Screen Saver)
  • Beautiful Armoire
  • Views From The Internet
  • Doors (From Catalogs)
  • Backwards Facing Cats (eBay)
  • Ceramic Cats (eBay)
  • Many Leonards Not Natman
  • Cabinet 1526-2013
  • Touching Hardware
  • Embarrassing Books
  • Credits (A Bibliography)
  • Untitled (Crowds and Graveyards)
  • Arrhythmia (All the Dishes / eBay)
  • Mirrors (From Catalogs)
  • Bed/Pillows/Paint
  • Office / Still Lives
  • All Catalogues (A-Z)
  • Honeymoon Suites
  • Statistical Self-portraits
  • Dogs on Pillows
  • Jasper Walking, 1997-2010
  • Pictures of and by my grandmother
  • Your Choice
  • From Catalogs

• Books
  • Everyone’s Photos Any License
  • Out Of Order: Bad Display III
  • Solar Eclipses from NYPL
  • Out of Order: Bad Display
  • Out of Order: Used Office
  • RANGE
  • Moving Mountains (1850-2012)
  • Photographs
  • Desk Trajectories (As Is)
  • Many Leonards Not Natman

• Older Work
  • Untitled Maps
  • Viral Fields / Seasonal
  • Untitled, Skin Transfers
  • Object Throb / Focus Struggle
  • Ends of Things

Selected Bibliography
 

Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger, Conversation with Penelope Umbrico, in Why Exhibit, Fw:Books and Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, 2018 [PDF] 

Elizabeth Ferrer, Conversation with Penelope Umbrico for Monument, BRIC Arts Media, 2018 [PDF] 

Lyle Rexer, Penelope Umbrico, Interview, Photograph Magazine, November 2018 [PDF] 

Joel Vacheron, Penelope Umbrico, Interview, for Could You Talk About, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland, 2018 [PDF] 

Jonathan Blaustein, Interview, A Photo Editor, April 27, 2016 [PDF] 

Art Forum, Penelope Umbrico at Bruce Silvertein Gallery, Critic's Picks, 2016  [PDF]

Tyler Green, Interview, The Modern Art Notes Podcast, May 12, 2016 [audio]

Brad Feuerhelm, Interview, for Nearest Truth, episode 75 [audio]

Richard Klein, Penelope Umbrico: Shallow Sun, exhibition essay, Aldrich Museum, Spring 2015  [PDF]

Teju Cole, “On Photography”, The New York Times Magazine, April 19, 2015 [PDF]

Clément Chéroux, essay for monograph, Out of Order, RVB Books Paris, Fall 2014  [PDF]

Art Gallery Magazine, Profile: Penelope Umbrico: A Photographer of the Internet, Issue 172, China, March 2013  [PDF]

David Little, exhibition essay, Encounters on Distant Mountains, Bethel University, St Paul, MN, April 2013  [PDF]

Conveyor Magazine, Flashes That Have the Character of Ghosts, with Jeremy Haik, in Spectre/Spectrum, Issue 5, Fall 2013   [PDF]

Art Gallery Magazine, “Profile: Penelope Umbrico: A Photographer of the Internet”, Issue 172 , China, March 2013   [PDF]

Art in America, March 2012   [PDF]

Irina Rozovsky, 500 Words: Penelope Umbrico, ArtForum.com, July 2011   [PDF]

Foam International Photography Magazine, Artist Project for “What’s Next,” #3/4, Amsterdam, Summer 2011   [PDF]

Conveyor Magazine, “The Digital Sublime: A Dialog with Penelope Umbrico”, Issue #1, Spring 2011   [PDF]

Faye Hirsch, exhibition review, Art in America, November 2010   [PDF]

Sheryl Conkelton, essay for "Out of Place: Mirrors and Doors from Catalogs", December, 2001   [PDF]

Morgan, Robert C., "Signs Within the Inventory", catalog essay, 1998   [PDF]

Hartshorn, Willis, essay for "Variants", International Center of Photography, May, 1992   [PDF]

Selected Writing

Photo No-Nos, ed. Jason Fulford, Aperture, 2021

Interview Ruth van Beek, The PhotoBook Review, Aperture, Summer 2021

My Pretty Pony: Barbara Kruger and Stephen King, review, The PhotoBook Review, Aperture, Spring 2019

Subjectiv: on the current political climate, essay, Objectiv Journal, Oslo, Fall 2017

Black Sun, for The Back Page, Photograph Magazine, July - August 2015

Ruth van Beek, The Arrangement, review, The PhotoBook Review, Aperture, Fall 2013

Flashes That Have the Character of Ghosts, with Jeremy Haik, in Spectre/Spectrum, Conveyor Magazine, Issue 5, Fall 2013

Who Owns What in the Digital Age, invited response for The Jewish Museum Blog, blog.thejewishmuseum.org, 2013

The Image World is Flat, co-authored with Virginia Rutledge, Aperture Magazine, Winter 2013

Infinite Photographies – On The Photographic Universe: A Conference, review, Afterimage, Spring 2011

Self0ness-less, in Cultural Production in Virtual and Imagined Worlds, Cambridge Scholars Press, May 2010

Our New Library, photo-essay for Rethinking Marxism, Routledge, November, 2008
IMG MGMT: Our New Library, www.artfagcity.com, 2008 (first published in Rethinking Marxism, Routledge, November, 2008

Ars Virtua on Second Life, Bomb Magazine, Spring Issue, 2008

The Medium as Subject, in The Education of a Photographer, Ed., Traub, Heller and Bell, Allworth Press