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> [ The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene \[in a photograph\] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality in favour of an imagined plenitude. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-burgin/the-wholeness-coherence-identity-which-we-attribute-to-the-depicted/)

[Victor Burgin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-burgin/)

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## More by Victor Burgin

> [ The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity \[or its photograph\] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-burgin/the-only-pertinent-political-question-in-relation-to-an-identity-or/)

[Victor Burgin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-burgin/)

> [It seems to be extensively believed by photographers that meanings are to be found in the world much in the way rabbits are found…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-burgin/it-seems-to-be-extensively-believed-by-photographers-that-meanings/)

[Victor Burgin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-burgin/)

> [Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-burgin/our-conviction-that-we-are-free-to-choose-what-we-make-of-a/)

[Victor Burgin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-burgin/)

> [ The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene \[in a photograph\] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality in… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-burgin/the-wholeness-coherence-identity-which-we-attribute-to-the-depicted/)

[Victor Burgin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-burgin/)

> [A job the artist does which no-one else does is to dismantle existing communication codes and to combine some of their elements into structures…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-burgin/a-job-the-artist-does-which-no-one-else-does-is-to-dismantle-existing/)

[Victor Burgin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-burgin/)

> [Looking is not indifferent. There can never be any question of 'just looking'.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-burgin/looking-is-not-indifferent-there-can-never-be-any-question-of-just/)

[Victor Burgin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-burgin/)

> [Even the uncaptioned art photograph is invaded by language in the very moment it is looked at: in memory, in association, snatches of words…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-burgin/even-the-uncaptioned-art-photograph-is-invaded-by-language-in-the/)

[Victor Burgin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-burgin/)

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