“The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality in favour of an imagined plenitude.” RealityIdentityScenePhotographAttributesWholenessFavourProjectionRefusalCoherencePlenitude Author:Victor Burgin
“The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually achieve?” DoePoliticalAchieveIdentityRelationPhotographPertinent Author:Victor Burgin
