Joseph Ismail

between 1966 and 1969, Mel Bochner worked on a series of photographic works inquiring into the mediums perspectival and representational incongruities. works such as '36 Photographs and 12 Diagrams' (1966), and 'Photograph-Blocks (Four by Four)' (1967), highlight the small but fatal (Achilles heel) discrepancies of the camera's inability to record and document accurately.

at a time when photography was disdained in the art world, it marks an important point in the shift from the purism of minimalism to conceptualism, where documentation, rather than being ignored, was accepted and appropriated, and ultimately raised to a (sculptural?) object in its own right
(for further reading see; "Mel Bochner Photographs 1966-1969" by Scott Rothkopf)