Craig Owens quotes
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“Representation, then, is not - nor can it be - neutral; it is an act - indeed the founding act - of power in our culture.”
-- Craig OwensSource : Craig Owens, Scott Stewart Bryson (1994). “Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture”, p.91, Univ of California Press
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“Photographs are but one link in a potentially endless chain of reduplication; themselves duplicates (of both their objects and, in a sense, their negatives), they are also subject to further duplication, either through the procedures of printing or as objects of still other photographs.”
-- Craig OwensSource : Craig Owens, Scott Stewart Bryson (1994). “Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture”, p.26, Univ of California Press
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“As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.”
-- Craig OwensSource : Craig Owens, Scott Stewart Bryson (1994). “Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture”, p.56, Univ of California Press
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“The postmodernist critique of representation undermines the referential status of visual imagery, its claim to represent reality as it really is - either the appearance of things or some ideal order behind or beyond appearance.”
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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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“I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.”
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“All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.”
Source : Guy Debord (1994). “The Society of the Spectacle”, Zone Books (NY)
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Source : Douglas Crimp, Louise Lawler (1995). “On the Museum's Ruins”, p.119, MIT Press
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