“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
“Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited in the very act of looking.” PhotographConvictionComplicity Book:Thinking photography Source: Thinking photography
“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
“Even the uncaptioned art photograph is invaded by language in the very moment it is looked at: in memory, in association, snatches of words and images continually intermingle and exchange one for the other.” ArtMomentsLanguageMemoriesPhotographAssociation Author:Victor Burgin
