Political Quotes by Martha Rosler

Just going out on a foray to assemble a collection of street trophies about this or that running social sore can't be effective -…

— Martha Rosler

Photography [can] be seen as a system of representation that you bring to bear on other systems.

— Martha Rosler

So much of my work involved the Vietnam War that it would have been obscene to show it in a gallery. But now, it’s…

— Martha Rosler

“Artists and activists offend the sensibilities of the rule-bound when they interfere with people”s ability to accept things in the private realm as long…

— Martha Rosler

The exposé, the compassion and outrage, of documentary fueled by the dedication to reform has shaded over into combinations of exoticism, tourism, voyeurism, psychologism…

— Martha Rosler

How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story?

— Martha Rosler

Are we asserting the easy dominion of our civilization over all times and all places, as signs that we casually absorb as a form…

— Martha Rosler

Any familiarity with photographic history shows that manipulation is integral to photography.

— Martha Rosler

Documentary is a little like horror movies, putting a face on fear and transforming threat into fantasy, into imagery. One can handle imagery by…

— Martha Rosler

I was concerned with something like the notion of 'language speaking the subject,' and with the transformation of the woman herself into a sign…

— Martha Rosler

The question at hand is the danger posed to truth by computer-manipulated photographic imagery. How do we approach this question in a period in…

— Martha Rosler