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 process in relation to that object. The question for me always is: how can I make… — Uta Barth Copy Share Image
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 how to invite this experience is by removing the other things (i.e., subject matter) for you… — Uta Barth Copy Share Image
We all expect photographs to be a picture of something. We assume that the photographer observed a place, a person, an event in the… — Uta Barth Copy Share Image
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… — Uta Barth Copy Share Image
I have never been interested in making a photograph that describes what the world I live in looks like, but I am interested in… — Uta Barth Copy Share Image
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… — Uta Barth Copy Share Image
Specificity of time and place drop away and one starts to think about the picture, as much as what it is of. — Uta Barth Copy Share Image
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… — Uta Barth Copy Share Image
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… — Uta Barth Copy Share Image
My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself. — Uta Barth Copy Share Image
