Photography Quotes by Jean Baudrillard

8 Photography quotes by Jean Baudrillard

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Baudrillard’s media‑savvy critique of images is distilled into eight short lines, giving a quick entry point to his thought‑provoking perspective.

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For me, the photography, in its purest form, is a variant of the fable. Another way of saving the appearances - a…

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There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a…

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The image is not a medium for which we have to find the proper use. It is what it is and it…

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You think you photograph a particular scene for the pleasure it gives. In fact it's the scene that wants to be photographed.…

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Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images.

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It is perhaps not a surprise that photography developed as a technological medium in the industrial age, when reality started to disappear.…

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Every photographed object is merely the trace left behind by the disappearance of all the rest. It is an almost perfect crime,…

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So-called 'realist' photography does not capture the 'what is.' Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of…

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“We will live in this world, which for us has all the disquieting strangeness of the desert and of the simulacrum, with all the…

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Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape…

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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

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The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.

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“We need a visible past, a visible continuum, a visible myth of origin to reassure us as to our ends, since ultimately we have…

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History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.

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Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our…

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If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one…

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but…

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When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness,…

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You have to know how to disappear.

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Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus of affluence.…

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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

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