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Martha Rosler is an American artist renowned for her photography and installation art, often focusing on issues of consumer culture, gender, and social politics. Born on July 29, 1943, Rosler's artistic career began in the 1960s when she became interested in consumerism and advertising culture.

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“Just going out on a foray to assemble a collection of street trophies about this or that running social sore can't be effective - and never was.”

Running Social Streets Collections Going Out Trophies

Author:Martha Rosler

“The exposé, the compassion and outrage, of documentary fueled by the dedication to reform has shaded over into combinations of exoticism, tourism, voyeurism, psychologism and metaphysics, trophy hunting - and careerism.”

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Book:Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975-2001

Source: Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975-2001

“Are we asserting the easy dominion of our civilization over all times and all places, as signs that we casually absorb as a form of loot?”

Form Easy Civilization All Time Dominion

Book:Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975-2001

Source: Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975-2001

“The question at hand is the danger posed to truth by computer-manipulated photographic imagery. How do we approach this question in a period in which the veracity of even the straight, unmanipulated photograph has been under attack for a couple of decades.”

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“Photography [can] be seen as a system of representation that you bring to bear on other systems.”

Bears Photography Representation

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“Any familiarity with photographic history shows that manipulation is integral to photography.”

Shows Photography Manipulation Familiarity

Book:Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975-2001

Source: Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975-2001

“Documentary is a little like horror movies, putting a face on fear and transforming threat into fantasy, into imagery. One can handle imagery by leaving it behind. (It is them, not us.)”

Littles Faces Behinds Fantasy Horror Threat Leaving Handle Documentaries Imagery Transforming Leaving It Behind

Book:Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975-2001

Source: Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975-2001

“How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story?”

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Author:Martha Rosler

“Take the Money and Run? Can Political and Socio-Critical Art ‘Survive’?”

Art Running Political Critical

Author:Martha Rosler

“So much of my work involved the Vietnam War that it would have been obscene to show it in a gallery. But now, it’s different; it’s important to remember and to enable the young to discover what to some of us is still so present.”

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Author:Martha Rosler

“I was concerned with something like the notion of 'language speaking the subject,' and with the transformation of the woman herself into a sign in a system of signs that represent a system of food production, a system of harnessed subjectivity.”

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Author:Martha Rosler

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Born: July 29, 1943
Known for: Artist
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