We all expect photographs to be a picture of something. We assume that the photographer observed a place, a person, an event in the world, and wants to record it, point at it…The problem with my work is that these images are really not of anything in that sense, they register only that which is incidental and peripheral to the implied it.
We all expect photographs to be a picture of something. We assume that the photographer observed a place, a person, an event in the world, and wants … - Uta Barth
We all expect photographs to be a picture of something. We assume that the photographer observed a place, a person, an event in the world, and wants …
- Uta Barth
When I was sixteen and knew nothing about art, I sat through almost six hours of Andy Warhol’s Empire. I did not understand it but thought: this is i… - Uta Barth
When I was sixteen and knew nothing about art, I sat through almost six hours of Andy Warhol’s Empire. I did not understand it but thought: this is i…
My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself. - Uta Barth
My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself.
Everything is pointing to one's own activity of looking, to an awareness and sort of hyper-consciousness of visual perception. The only way I know ho… - Uta Barth
Everything is pointing to one's own activity of looking, to an awareness and sort of hyper-consciousness of visual perception. The only way I know ho…
I am interested in the conventions of picture-making, in the desire to picture the world and in our relationship, our continual love for and fascinat… - Uta Barth
I am interested in the conventions of picture-making, in the desire to picture the world and in our relationship, our continual love for and fascinat…
I keep trying to find ways to shift the viewer's attention away from the object they are looking at and toward their own perceptual process in relati… - Uta Barth
I keep trying to find ways to shift the viewer's attention away from the object they are looking at and toward their own perceptual process in relati…
I have never been interested in making a photograph that describes what the world I live in looks like, but I am interested in what pictures (of the … - Uta Barth
I have never been interested in making a photograph that describes what the world I live in looks like, but I am interested in what pictures (of the …
Specificity of time and place drop away and one starts to think about the picture, as much as what it is of. - Uta Barth
Specificity of time and place drop away and one starts to think about the picture, as much as what it is of.
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