Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the rituals of the arriviste. Inasmuch as one of those rituals consists of the establishment of suitable ancestry, a search… — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
The thing itself is never just out there in the world waiting to be framed by the photographer's Leica; rather, it is something dynamically produced in the act of representation and reception and already subject to the grids of meaning… — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode. — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the rituals of the… — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
The thing itself is never just out there in the world waiting to be framed by the photographer's Leica; rather, it is something dynamically… — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
In the final analysis, photography... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun. — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
... photography, like all camera-made images such as film and video, effaces the marks of its making (and maker) at the click of a… — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
While the aesthetics of consumption (photographic or otherwise) requires a heroicized myth of the artist, the exemplary practice of the player-off codes requires only… — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced. — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
