... photography, like all camera-made images such as film and video, effaces the marks of its making (and maker) at the click of a shutter. A photograph appears to be self-generated - as though it had created itself. — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode. — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the rituals of the… — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
The thing itself is never just out there in the world waiting to be framed by the photographer's Leica; rather, it is something dynamically… — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
In the final analysis, photography... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun. — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
... photography, like all camera-made images such as film and video, effaces the marks of its making (and maker) at the click of a… — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
While the aesthetics of consumption (photographic or otherwise) requires a heroicized myth of the artist, the exemplary practice of the player-off codes requires only… — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced. — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
