Men have dominated the field of landscape photography just as they have dominated the land itself. Thus shooting a virgin landscape has been man's work - hunting, not gardening. — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
“Looking at and 'appreciating' art has been understood as an instrument (or at best a result) of upward mobility, in which owning art is… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we'd… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
Photographers find themselves directly in competition with mass media's misrepresentations of women. So the photographic terrain is particularly contested from a political point of… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
“The postmodern notion of "appropriation" is not a good fit. In New Mexico, the "indigenous" is a syncretic fusion of Native American and Hispano… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
Despite having been awarded the dubious honor of arthood, all photography is still perceived as having one foot in the real world, a toe… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
There is indeed something omnivorous about the act of photography. It offers a way of responding to everything about everything. — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
Given the lack of public skills in reading photographs, given that photographic content is sometimes buried in beauty, contemporary landscape photographers are often condemned… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
I intensely dislike the word 'critic,' because it puts you in an antagonistic position to artists. I've learned everything that I know about art… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
I must admit to a personal lack of sympathy with women who have themselves photographed in black stockings, garter belts and boots, with bare… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
A piece of paper or a photograph is as much an object, or as 'material' as a ton of lead. — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or ‘dematerialized’ — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
