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“How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story?” quote by Martha Rosler — Download Open image

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

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

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

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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…

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Take the Money and Run? Can Political and Socio-Critical Art ‘Survive’?

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“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…

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

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

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

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

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

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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…

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Many people, including myself, thought of Jobs as an inventor, an Edison-like figure, but he wasn't. I did a documentary on James Brown recently;…

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The documentary style is an incredibly flexible and useful one. It's a wonderful tool for establishing the credibility of the version of things that's…

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Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.

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...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary…

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Most of my life, I thought that I would end up a novelist. But then, in New York City, after college, I started a…

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By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary.

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I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is.

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The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction to what…

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I'm in school every day. It depends on what it is that you do with all that free time when I'm not on the…

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If you merely focus on what we already know, then it's not revelatory. You may as well just go and watch a documentary or…

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So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them.

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