I think that a symbolism is attached to particular images, becomes marked in the unconscious. To exorcise it, to rearrange it, to reshape it, to make…

- Sarah Charlesworth

I don't think of myself as a photographer. I've engaged questions regarding photography's role in culture... but it is an engagement with a problem r…

- Sarah Charlesworth

I turned to photography because I thought it was the dominant language of our culture.

- Sarah Charlesworth

To live in a world of photographs is to live in a world of substitutes... or so it seems, whose actual referent is always the other, the described, t…

- Sarah Charlesworth

Frequently these loaded images or objects are used by me without my attaching a particular significance to them. In other words, what I'm doing is le…

- Sarah Charlesworth