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

My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself.

- 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…

- 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…

- 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…

- Uta Barth

Specificity of time and place drop away and one starts to think about the picture, as much as what it is of.

- 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 …

- Uta Barth