In the final analysis, photography... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun.

- Abigail Solomon-Godeau

As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.

- Abigail Solomon-Godeau

While the aesthetics of consumption (photographic or otherwise) requires a heroicized myth of the artist, the exemplary practice of the player-off co…

- Abigail Solomon-Godeau

The thing itself is never just out there in the world waiting to be framed by the photographer's Leica; rather, it is something dynamically produced …

- Abigail Solomon-Godeau

Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the r…

- Abigail Solomon-Godeau

... photography, like all camera-made images such as film and video, effaces the marks of its making (and maker) at the click of a shutter. A photogr…

- Abigail Solomon-Godeau

Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exha…

- Abigail Solomon-Godeau