'Objects of Desire' Explores the Interplay Between Fine Art and Commercial Photography

Objects of Desire: Photography and the Language of Advertising is a new exhibition coming to the Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art (LACMA) this fall. As the title implies, the show explores the myriad ways in which artists have manipulated and fused the worlds of fine art and commercial photography.Curated by Rebecca Morse of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department, the show harks back to techniques first formed in the 1970s, when photographers reworked advertising's visual codes and st...