“The internet does not adhere to the inherent, necessary asymmetry of high-versus-low-art categorizations that we use in the cultural sector: in a banal sense, all photographs on the Web are orphans ready to be claimed.” DoeArtUseReadyInternetLowsPhotographInherentVersusOrphanCategorizationAsymmetry Author:Charlotte Cotton
“Photography is, and has been since its conception, a fabulously broad church. Contemporary practice demonstrates that the medium can be a prompt, a process, a vehicle, a collective pursuit, and not just the physical end product of solitary artists' endeavors.” Has BeensEndsArtistProcessChurchPracticeProductsPhotographyPursuitContemporaryMediumsCollectivesBroadsEndeavorConceptionVehicleSolitaryPrompts Author:Charlotte Cotton
“We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers.” CivilizationPhotographerEditorsPublishersCurator Author:Charlotte Cotton
“I love bells, clocks, watches - and I recall that at first photographic implements were related to techniques of cabinetmaking and the machinery of precision: cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing.” Love IsClock Author:Charlotte Cotton
“Every time you enter a space, you are on public display. Nothing is private.” Author:Charlotte Cotton
“The real beauty of the time we're living through is that we can deploy our self-image in ways that can have radical social implications.” RealRadicalReal Beauty Author:Charlotte Cotton
“More platform-sensitive generations will make distinctions between online and in-person intimacy, whereas fourteen-year-olds have very nuanced online selves and might embody their virtual identity in the physical, analogue version of themselves. They have a much more pluralistic understanding of the self. I don't think we'd be here now in this amazing sexual and gender revolution without the online space where young people can see and share other versions of identity and sexuality.” PeopleThinkingUnderstandingShareIdentityRevolutionGenderSexualityIntimacyOnline Author:Charlotte Cotton
“There's something quite magical that can happen when a secret is no longer a secret - or is a shared secret or a common secret. By allowing those boundaries to be porous, certain forms of oppression may be lifted.” CommonSecretBoundariesOppression Author:Charlotte Cotton
“The limitation of the vlog format is that it may seem to give people enough, when they actually have no real autonomy.” PeopleGivingRealEnoughLimitationAutonomy Author:Charlotte Cotton
“I have to admit to you, I am the person who's done probably the least analysis on the selfie, because it's a bit like pornography for me. It's this masturbatory, repetitive act that I'd rather wasn't part of my routine.” DonePornographyRepetitive Author:Charlotte Cotton
“I think that the role of curating an exhibition is to reanimate history and make it relevant to a contemporary viewer.” ThinkingRelevant Author:Charlotte Cotton
“Photography's relationship with pornography is as old as photography. That kind of unholy relationship is formed from the very beginning, and there's a reason why: it's thoroughly enjoyable to be that voyeuristic. Voyeurism is a very old modality, and most of the history of photography is in some way related voyeurism.” KindReasonPhotographyPornographyEnjoyable Author:Charlotte Cotton
“I think the twenty-first-century modality is exhibitionism. Exhibitionism is our contemporary strategy for maintaining our boundaries, which is to be boundary-less - to put everything out there before somebody comes and violates or penetrates something that we're keeping sacred.” ThinkingStrategyBoundaries Author:Charlotte Cotton
“In an era where digital or virtual is the default, the actual coming together into a physical space has to be an experience that you don't want to miss.” TogetherMissing Author:Charlotte Cotton
