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…

- Rosalind E. Krauss

Photographic cropping is always experienced as a rupture in the continuous fabric of reality.

- Rosalind E. Krauss

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…

- Rosalind E. Krauss

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.

- Rosalind E. Krauss

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…

- Rosalind E. Krauss

By exposing the multiplicity, the facticity, the repetition and stereotype at the heart of every aesthetic gesture, photography deconstructs the poss…

- Rosalind E. Krauss

... 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…

- Rosalind E. Krauss

Here is a paradox. It would seem that there cannot be surrealism and photography, but only photography or surrealism.

- Rosalind E. Krauss

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…

- Rosalind E. Krauss