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“I have looked at so many photographs, I can not see them anymore.”

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Michael Heizer is an influential American land artist, born on November 4, 1944. Known for his large-scale land art pieces, Heizer challenges traditional artistic media and exhibition methods, having a profound impact on the contemporary art world. more

“What I try to do is reinvigorate strategies and clichés I find in Hollywood movies. At a certain point I had these huge folders, each one classified according to subject matter or genre: people with guns, people kissing, Indians and cowboys falling off horses, getting shot, getting shot with arrows - almost every plot device. Then I cropped the cheap, recycled imagery to give exhausted images new meaning, or at least something other than their original meaning. I'm basically reassembling atoms to give them a meaning that's more au courant.”

“From the moment the tourist enters the site, everyone has to be photographed in front of every feature of note.... The photographic record of the visit has almost destroyed the very notion of actually looking.”

Moments Records Fronts Notes Notion Destroyed Features Site Tourists

Author:Martin Parr

“Beauty is not a concept. It is the animal joy of the mind.”

Mind Joy Animal Concepts

Author:Peter Schjeldahl

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