Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-expression on the part of the artist.
Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy. - Allan Sekula
Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.
- Allan Sekula
Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitati… - Allan Sekula
Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitati…
Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-… - Allan Sekula
Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-…
The making of a human likeness on film is a political act. - Allan Sekula
The making of a human likeness on film is a political act.
Black-and-white photos tell the truth. That's why insurance companies use them. - Allan Sekula
Black-and-white photos tell the truth. That's why insurance companies use them.
How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, … - Allan Sekula
How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, …
The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability. - Allan Sekula
The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.
The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture. - Allan Sekula
The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.
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