[Cindy Sherman's] photographs reverse the terms of art and autobiography. They use art not to reveal the artist's true self but to show the self as a….

The desire of representation exists only insofar as the original is always deferred. It is only in the absence of the original that representation ca….

Not only has photography so thoroughly saturated our visual environment as to make the invention of visual images seem archaic, but it is also clear ….

To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to thes….

Through reproductive technology, postmodernist art dispenses with the aura. The fiction of the creating subject gives way to a frank confiscation, qu….