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John Divola

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[Wikipedia] John Divola is an American contemporary visual artist and educator, living in Riverside, California. He works in photography, describing himself as exploring the landscape by looking for the edge between the abstract and the specific. He is a professor in the art department at University of Californ

Quotes by John Divola

The photograph as an object has a relationship to that which it represents something like the relationship the snake skin has to…

Objects

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To photograph is often compared to an act of redemption - to select from an infinite number of choices that which is…

Choice

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It's good to be around people who see [photography] as a reasonable enterprise when everyone in the neighborhood may think it's ridiculous.…

Benefits

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I really don't worry too much about what I see through the viewfinder, at least not at that point, especially if I'm…

Attributes

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I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors.... You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in…

Function

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In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make…

Notion

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