The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually achieve? — Victor Burgin Copy Share Image
The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually… — Victor Burgin Copy Share Image
It seems to be extensively believed by photographers that meanings are to be found in the world much in the way rabbits are found in downs, and all that is required is the talent to spot them and the skill to shoot them... But those moments of truth for which the photographic opportunist waits, finger on the button, are as… — Victor Burgin Copy Share
Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited in the… — Victor Burgin Copy Share Image
The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality in… — Victor Burgin Copy Share Image
A job the artist does which no-one else does is to dismantle existing communication codes and to combine some of their elements into structures… — Victor Burgin Copy Share Image
Looking is not indifferent. There can never be any question of 'just looking'. — Victor Burgin Copy Share Image
Even the uncaptioned art photograph is invaded by language in the very moment it is looked at: in memory, in association, snatches of words… — Victor Burgin Copy Share Image
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