Best-known for her antiwar and feminist photomontages and videos deconstructing everyday life, Martha Rosler is one of the most significant artists working today. Her investigative work in photography, video, performance, and installation and her critical writing have influenced a generation of postmodern artists and scholars. This insightful book, which was published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, Germany, celebrating Rosler's receipt of the 2005 Spectrum Prize, presents 180 photographs of shop windows, signage, subways, airports, and street items. The images, assembled from five different documentary series, examine social stereotypes and political propaganda while revealing the poetic possibilities of photographing in public places. Equaling the imagery in strength are the ideas Rosler shares, in an interview with Molly Nesbit and Hans Ulrich Obrist, about her visual diaries and other seminal works.

Martha Rosler's work is on view at documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany through September 23. Martha Rosler Library, an exhibition comprised of 7,700 books from the artist's personal collection, can be seen at Berlin’s unitednationsplaza through August 31.