Looking is not indifferent. There can never be any question of 'just looking'.
It seems to be extensively believed by photographers that meanings are to be found in the world much in the way rabbits are found in downs, and all t… - Victor Burgin
It seems to be extensively believed by photographers that meanings are to be found in the world much in the way rabbits are found in downs, and all t…
- Victor Burgin
The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality … - Victor Burgin
The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality …
Looking is not indifferent. There can never be any question of 'just looking'. - Victor Burgin
Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited in the very act of looking. - Victor Burgin
Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited in the very act of looking.
The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually achieve? - Victor Burgin
The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually achieve?
Even the uncaptioned art photograph is invaded by language in the very moment it is looked at: in memory, in association, snatches of words and image… - Victor Burgin
Even the uncaptioned art photograph is invaded by language in the very moment it is looked at: in memory, in association, snatches of words and image…
A job the artist does which no-one else does is to dismantle existing communication codes and to combine some of their elements into structures which… - Victor Burgin
A job the artist does which no-one else does is to dismantle existing communication codes and to combine some of their elements into structures which…
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