Documentary is a little like horror movies, putting a face on fear and transforming threat into fantasy, into imagery. One can handle imagery by leav…

- Martha Rosler

Any familiarity with photographic history shows that manipulation is integral to photography.

- Martha Rosler

I was concerned with something like the notion of 'language speaking the subject,' and with the transformation of the woman herself into a sign in a …

- Martha Rosler

Just going out on a foray to assemble a collection of street trophies about this or that running social sore can't be effective - and never was.

- Martha Rosler

Photography [can] be seen as a system of representation that you bring to bear on other systems.

- Martha Rosler

How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story?

- Martha Rosler

The exposé, the compassion and outrage, of documentary fueled by the dedication to reform has shaded over into combinations of exoticism, tourism, vo…

- Martha Rosler

Are we asserting the easy dominion of our civilization over all times and all places, as signs that we casually absorb as a form of loot?

- Martha Rosler

So much of my work involved the Vietnam War that it would have been obscene to show it in a gallery. But now, it’s different; it’s important to remem…

- Martha Rosler