The desire of representation exists only insofar as the original is always deferred. It is only in the absence of the original that representation can take place. — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
Not only has photography so thoroughly saturated our visual environment as to make the invention of visual images seem archaic, but it is also… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
[Cindy Sherman's] photographs reverse the terms of art and autobiography. They use art not to reveal the artist's true self but to show the… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
The desire of representation exists only insofar as the original is always deferred. It is only in the absence of the original that representation… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
Through reproductive technology, postmodernist art dispenses with the aura. The fiction of the creating subject gives way to a frank confiscation, quotation, excerptation, accumulation,… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
![“[Cindy Sherman's] photographs reverse the terms of art and autobiography. They use art not to reveal the artist's true self but to show the self as an imaginary construct. There is no real Cindy Sherman in these photographs; there are only the guises she assumes. And she does not create these…” quote by Douglas Crimp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/163/douglas-crimp-60932_art_cindy-sherman-s-photographs-reverse-the_987958.jpg)
