For photography to be an art involves reformulating notions of art, rejecting both material and formal purism and also the separation of art from commerce as distinct semiotic practices that never interlock. — Peter Wollen Copy Share Image
The aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices stopping time and preserving fragments of the past,… — Peter Wollen Copy Share
Photography is motionless and frozen, it has the cryogenic power to preserve objects through time without decay. — Peter Wollen Copy Share
For photography to be an art involves reformulating notions of art, rejecting both material and formal purism and also the separation of art from… — Peter Wollen Copy Share
The lover of photography is fascinated both by the instant and by the past. The moment captured in the image is of near-zero duration… — Peter Wollen Copy Share
