Occupation: Art Critic Birth: November 30, 1941
Every photograph is the result of a physical imprint transferred by light reflections onto a sensitive surface. The photograph is thus a type of icon….
Photography's vaunted capture of a moment in time is the seizure and freezing of presence. It is the image of simultaneity, of the way that everythin….
No longer do we accept the 'sublimation model' according to which 'the function of art is to sublimate or transform experience, raising it from ordin….
To convulse reality from within, to demonstrate it as fractured spacing, became the collective result of all that vast range of techniques to which s….
The frame announces that between the part of reality that was cut away and this part there is a difference; and that this segment which the frame fra….
By exposing the multiplicity, the facticity, the repetition and stereotype at the heart of every aesthetic gesture, photography deconstructs the poss….
Photographic cropping is always experienced as a rupture in the continuous fabric of reality..
More than a rejection or dissolution of the past, avant-garde originality is conceived as a literal origin, a beginning from ground zero, a birth..
... photography is an imprint or transfer off the real; it is a photochemically processed trace causally connected to the thing in the world to which….
Here is a paradox. It would seem that there cannot be surrealism and photography, but only photography or surrealism..