[Cindy Sherman's] photographs reverse the terms of art and autobiography. They use art not to reveal the artist's true self but to show the self as a…

- Douglas Crimp

The desire of representation exists only insofar as the original is always deferred. It is only in the absence of the original that representation ca…

- Douglas Crimp

Through reproductive technology, postmodernist art dispenses with the aura. The fiction of the creating subject gives way to a frank confiscation, qu…

- Douglas Crimp

Not only has photography so thoroughly saturated our visual environment as to make the invention of visual images seem archaic, but it is also clear …

- Douglas Crimp

To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to thes…

- Douglas Crimp