Martha Rosler created a work in 1974-1975 titled "The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems" which used photographs and text to document and critique two systems for describing the Bowery neighborhood of New York City and its residents. The work presented a sequence of black and white photographs from the 1940s alongside descriptive text, seeking to analyze how these two media systems fell short in capturing the full reality of everyday life and the public sphere in the Bowery.

1. Martha RosleR
The Bowery in Two inadequaTe descripTive sysTems, 1974-5

2. bio

3. Martha roSLEr
Born and lives in Brooklyn, new york
(afTer spending The 1970s in california)
she works in:
video
phoTo-TexT
insTallaTion
sculpTure
performance
and wriTes on aspecTs of culTure

4. objEctivE

5. hiStory of thE bowEry
Bowery Bum of The monTh
daTe Taken: march 1948
phoTographer: w eugene smiTh

6. EvEryday LifE and thE pubLic SphErE

7. MEthodS

8. docuMEntary MatEriaL
sequence of Black-and-whiTe phoTographs Taken in The Bowery

9. dEScriptivE SyStEMS
phoTo TexT

10. Exhibition