“Every photograph is the result of a physical imprint transferred by light reflections onto a sensitive surface. The photograph is thus a type of icon, or visual likeness, which bears an indexical relationship to its object.” LightResultsObjectsTypeBearsReflectionPhotographSurfaceSensitiveVisualsIcons Book:The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths Source: The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths
“To convulse reality from within, to demonstrate it as fractured spacing, became the collective result of all that vast range of techniques to which surrealist photographers resorted and which they understood as producing the characteristics of the sign.” RealityResultsUnderstoodPhotographerTechniqueRangeCharacteristicsCollectivesSurrealistSpacing Author:Rosalind E. Krauss
