“Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.” PromisePhotographyAnarchyMastery Author:Allan Sekula
“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.” WorldLittlesSocialUnderstandingMountainPhotographyEvidenceTerrorCriticalEnvyNostalgiaGenreDocumentariesDocumentary Photography Book:Dismal science: photo works, 1972-1996 Source: Dismal science: photo works, 1972-1996
“How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs?” DoeSocialMemoriesPhotographyHistoricalPhotographTransformedPower Relationships Book:Fish story Source: Fish story
