It seems to be extensively believed by photographers that meanings are to be found in the world much in the way rabbits… — Victor Burgin Copy Share Image
The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually… — Victor Burgin Copy Share Image
It seems to be extensively believed by photographers that meanings are to be found in the world much in the way rabbits are found… — Victor Burgin Copy Share Image
Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited in the… — Victor Burgin Copy Share Image
The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality in… — Victor Burgin Copy Share Image
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… — Victor Burgin Copy Share Image
Looking is not indifferent. There can never be any question of 'just looking'. — Victor Burgin Copy Share Image
Even the uncaptioned art photograph is invaded by language in the very moment it is looked at: in memory, in association, snatches of words… — Victor Burgin Copy Share Image
