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> [I have never been interested in making a photograph that describes what the world I live in looks like, but I am interested in what pictures (of the world) look like.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/uta-barth/i-have-never-been-interested-in-making-a-photograph-that-describes/)

[Uta Barth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/uta-barth/)

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## More by Uta Barth

> [We all expect photographs to be a picture of something. We assume that the photographer observed a place, a person, an event in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/uta-barth/we-all-expect-photographs-to-be-a-picture-of-something-we-assume-that/)

[Uta Barth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/uta-barth/)

> [I keep trying to find ways to shift the viewer's attention away from the object they are looking at and toward their own perceptual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/uta-barth/i-keep-trying-to-find-ways-to-shift-the-viewer-s-attention-away-from/)

[Uta Barth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/uta-barth/)

> [I have never been interested in making a photograph that describes what the world I live in looks like, but I am interested in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/uta-barth/i-have-never-been-interested-in-making-a-photograph-that-describes/)

[Uta Barth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/uta-barth/)

> [When I was sixteen and knew nothing about art, I sat through almost six hours of Andy Warhol’s Empire. I did not understand it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/uta-barth/when-i-was-sixteen-and-knew-nothing-about-art-i-sat-through-almost/)

[Uta Barth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/uta-barth/)

> [Specificity of time and place drop away and one starts to think about the picture, as much as what it is of.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/uta-barth/specificity-of-time-and-place-drop-away-and-one-starts-to-think-about/)

[Uta Barth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/uta-barth/)

> [I am interested in the conventions of picture-making, in the desire to picture the world and in our relationship, our continual love for and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/uta-barth/i-am-interested-in-the-conventions-of-picture-making-in-the-desire-to/)

[Uta Barth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/uta-barth/)

> [Everything is pointing to one's own activity of looking, to an awareness and sort of hyper-consciousness of visual perception. The only way I know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/uta-barth/everything-is-pointing-to-one-s-own-activity-of-looking-to-an/)

[Uta Barth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/uta-barth/)

> [My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/uta-barth/my-work-never-directly-addresses-the-literal-subject-matter-of-the/)

[Uta Barth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/uta-barth/)

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