Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exha….

The thing itself is never just out there in the world waiting to be framed by the photographer's Leica; rather, it is something dynamically produced ….

... photography, like all camera-made images such as film and video, effaces the marks of its making (and maker) at the click of a shutter. A photogr….

Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the r….

While the aesthetics of consumption (photographic or otherwise) requires a heroicized myth of the artist, the exemplary practice of the player-off co….

As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced..

In the final analysis, photography... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun..