Photography Cannot Record Abstract Ideas (Title of a 16x20 inch photograph depicting an index card on which that phrase is handwritten.)

- Mel Bochner

Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism... and as things turned out, it was.

- Mel Bochner

In 1967 there was no place for photography in a contemporary art gallery. It was almost impossible to get an art dealer to look at, let alone exhibit…

- Mel Bochner