Allan Sekula quotes
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“Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism, to terror, envy and nostalgia, and only a little to the critical understanding of the social world.”
-- Allan SekulaSource : Allan Sekula, Illinois State University. University Galleries (1999). “Dismal science: photo works, 1972-1996”, Illinois State Univ
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“The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.”
-- Allan SekulaSource : Allan Sekula (1984). “Photography against the grain: essays and photo works, 1973-1983”
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“The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.”
-- Allan SekulaSource : Allan Sekula (1984). “Photography against the grain: essays and photo works, 1973-1983”
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“Black-and-white photos tell the truth. That's why insurance companies use them.”
-- Allan SekulaSource : Allan Sekula, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh (2002). “Fish story”
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“Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-expression on the part of the artist.”
-- Allan SekulaSource : Allan Sekula, Illinois State University. University Galleries (1999). “Dismal science: photo works, 1972-1996”, Illinois State Univ
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“How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs?”
-- Allan SekulaSource : Allan Sekula, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh (2002). “Fish story”
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“The making of a human likeness on film is a political act.”
-- Allan SekulaSource : Allan Sekula (1984). “Photography against the grain: essays and photo works, 1973-1983”
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“Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.”
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Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
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Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
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Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
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“People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.”
Source : Agnes Repplier (1916). “Counter-currents”
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