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“... the thing that's happening today vis-á-vis computer imaging, vis-á-vis alteration, is that it no longer needs to be based on the real at all. I don't want to get into jargon - let's just say that photography to me no longer pertains to the rhetoric of realism; it pertains more perhaps to the rhetoric of the unreal rather than the real or of course the hyperreal.”

Quote by Barbara Kruger

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Barbara Kruger, born on January 26, 1945, is a renowned artist known for her strong visual style and critical social and political messages in her work. more

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