When I was sixteen and knew nothing about art, I sat through almost six hours of Andy Warhol’s Empire. I did not understand it but thought: this is in a major museum, it must be important, what is going on… — Uta Barth Copy Share Image
We all expect photographs to be a picture of something. We assume that the photographer observed a place, a person, an event in the… — Uta Barth Copy Share
I keep trying to find ways to shift the viewer's attention away from the object they are looking at and toward their own perceptual… — Uta Barth Copy Share
I have never been interested in making a photograph that describes what the world I live in looks like, but I am interested in… — Uta Barth Copy Share
When I was sixteen and knew nothing about art, I sat through almost six hours of Andy Warhol’s Empire. I did not understand it… — Uta Barth Copy Share
Specificity of time and place drop away and one starts to think about the picture, as much as what it is of. — Uta Barth Copy Share
I am interested in the conventions of picture-making, in the desire to picture the world and in our relationship, our continual love for and… — Uta Barth Copy Share
Everything is pointing to one's own activity of looking, to an awareness and sort of hyper-consciousness of visual perception. The only way I know… — Uta Barth Copy Share
My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself. — Uta Barth Copy Share
