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“When the true qualities of photography are recognized, the process of representation by mechanical means will be brought to a level of perfection never before reached.”

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Author:Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

“A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability.”

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Book:Waiting for the dark, waiting for the light

Source: Waiting for the dark, waiting for the light

“To me, the work I do is a means of interpreting unsettling truths, of bearing witness, and of sounding an alarm. The beauty of formal representation both carries an affirmation of life and subversively brings us face to face with news from our besieged world.”

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Author:Richard Misrach

“The very act of representation has been so thoroughly challenged in recent years by postmodern theories that it is impossible not to see the flaws everywhere, in any practice of photography. Traditional genres in particular-journalism, documentary studies, and fine-art photography-have become shells, or forms emptied of meaning.”

“In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of reality that conforms to its own representation of objectivity is truly objective.”

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Author:Pierre Bourdieu

“Art can no longer be merely a mirror, it must act as the organizer of the people's consciousness... No form of representation is so readily comprehensible to the masses as photography.”

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Author:El Lissitzky

“There are religions in which the representation of the world is banned as an usurpation of the power of a God, creator of all things. It is very possible that photography is a trick of the devil and each shot is a sin.”

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Author:Joan Fontcuberta

“Photography [can] be seen as a system of representation that you bring to bear on other systems.”

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Author:Martha Rosler

“The relation of photography and language is a principal site of struggle for value and power in contemporary representations of reality; it is the place where images and words find and lose their conscience, their aesthetic and ethical identity.”

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Author:William J. Mitchell

“Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it.”

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Author:David Hockney

“No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.”

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Book:Complete Works of John Ruskin

Source: Complete Works of John Ruskin