Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism, to terror, envy and nostalgia, and only a little to the critical understanding of the social world. — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs? — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy. — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
Black-and-white photos tell the truth. That's why insurance companies use them. — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism, to terror,… — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as… — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture. — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability. — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
