Abigail Solomon-Godeau quotes
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“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 in the act of representation and reception and already subject to the grids of meaning imposed on it by culture, history, language, and so forth.”
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“In the final analysis, photography... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun.”
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“As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.”
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“Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode.”
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“... 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 photograph appears to be self-generated - as though it had created itself.”
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“Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the rituals of the arriviste. Inasmuch as one of those rituals consists of the establishment of suitable ancestry, a search for distinguished bloodlines, it inevitably happens that photographic history and criticism are more concern with notions of tradition and continuity than with those of rupture and change.”
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“While the aesthetics of consumption (photographic or otherwise) requires a heroicized myth of the artist, the exemplary practice of the player-off codes requires only an operator, a producer, a scriptor, or a pasticheur.”
-- Abigail Solomon-Godeau
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Source : Abba Eban (1969). “My people: the story of the Jews”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
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Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.199, Thomas Nelson Inc
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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“Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.”
Source : Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.
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Source : Adi Da Samraj (1980). “Scientific proof of the existence of God will soon be announced by the White House!: prophetic wisdom about the myths and idols of mass culture and popular religious cultism, the new priesthood of scientific and political materialism, and the secrets of enlightenment hidden in the body of man”, Dawn Horse Pr
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“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”
Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)
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