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“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.”

Quote by Rosalind E. Krauss

Book:The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths

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The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths

The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths delves into the origins and evolution of avant-garde art and literature, analyzing the role of originality in shaping modernist movements. The book challenges common perceptions and provides a critical examination of the ideas and practices that define avant-garde creativity. more

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Rosalind E. Krauss

Rosalind E. Krauss, born on November 30, 1941, is a renowned art critic. Her work encompasses various aspects of modern and postmodern art, having a profound impact on contemporary art theory and criticism. more

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“Photography's vaunted capture of a moment in time is the seizure and freezing of presence. It is the image of simultaneity, of the way that everything within a given space at a given moment is present to everything else; it is a declaration of the seamless integrity of the real.”

Way Real Moments Given Space Integrity Photography Capture Declaration Moments In Time Freezing Seizures Seamless

Book:The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths

Source: The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths

“The frame announces that between the part of reality that was cut away and this part there is a difference; and that this segment which the frame frames is an example of nature-as-representation, nature-as-sign.”

Reality Differences Cutting Example Representation

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.”

Reality Results Understood Photographer Technique Range Characteristics Collectives Surrealist Spacing

Author:Rosalind E. Krauss

“Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols.”

Process Photographer Stores Symbols

Book:Towards a Philosophy of Photography

Source: Towards a Philosophy of Photography

“Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers... have not understood information. What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better they do it, the more they prove the victory of the camera over the human being.”

Humans Memories Human Beings Information Produce Victory Prove Understood Cameras Photographer Documentaries Snaps

Book:Towards a Philosophy of Photography

Source: Towards a Philosophy of Photography

“He who writes must master the rules of grammar. He who shoots photographs needs only to follow the instructions as given by the camera.... This leads to the paradox that the more people shoot photographs, the less they are capable of deciphering them.”

People Needs Writing Given Masters Capable Cameras Photograph Paradox Instruction Grammar

Book:Towards a Philosophy of Photography

Source: Towards a Philosophy of Photography

“With every (informative) photograph, the photographic program becomes poorer by one possibility while the photographic universe becomes richer by one realization.”

Universe Possibility Program Photograph Realization Informative

Book:Towards a Philosophy of Photography

Source: Towards a Philosophy of Photography

“...there is no everyday activity which does not aspire to be photographed, filmed or videotaped. For there is a general desire to be endlessly remembered and endlessly repeatable.”

Doe Desire Activity Everyday Remembered Aspire

Book:Towards a Philosophy of Photography

Source: Towards a Philosophy of Photography

“Photographers encode their concepts as photographic images so as to give others information, so as to produce models for them and thereby to become immortal in the memory of others.”

Giving Memories Information Produce Models Concepts Photographer Immortal

Book:Towards a Philosophy of Photography

Source: Towards a Philosophy of Photography

“The task of a philosophy of photography is to reflect upon [the] possibility of freedom - and thus its significance - in a world dominated by apparatuses; to reflect upon the way in which, despite everything, it is possible for human beings to give significance to their lives in the face of the chance necessity of death. Such a philosophy is necessary because it is the only form of revolution left open to us.”

World Way Giving Humans Philosophy Faces Form Left Chance Human Beings Possibility Revolution Photography Tasks Despite Significance

Book:Towards a Philosophy of Photography

Source: Towards a Philosophy of Photography