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> [My first pieces, in an art context, were ways to get myself off the page and into real space. These photographic pieces were ways to, literally, throw myself into my environment. They were photographs not of an activity, but through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vito-acconci/my-first-pieces-in-an-art-context-were-ways-to-get-myself-off-the/)

[Vito Acconci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vito-acconci/)

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> [In most of my photographic pieces I have manipulated the quality of the evidence that people assign to photography, in order to subvert it, or to show that photography lies - that what it conveys is not reality but a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-boltanski/in-most-of-my-photographic-pieces-i-have-manipulated-the-quality-of/)

[Christian Boltanski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-boltanski/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d8f/christian-boltanski-23691_code_in-most-of-my-photographic-pieces-i-have_823951.jpg)

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