Art Quote by Richard Misrach

Most importantly, postmodernism comes down on the side of photography and power, not photography as power. As a consequence, photography continues to be conceived…

— Geoffrey Batchen

The postmodernist critique of representation undermines the referential status of visual imagery, its claim to represent reality as it really is - either the…

— Craig Owens

Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism... and as things turned out, it was.

— Mel Bochner

Not only has photography so thoroughly saturated our visual environment as to make the invention of visual images seem archaic, but it is also…

— Douglas Crimp

Photographers find themselves directly in competition with mass media's misrepresentations of women. So the photographic terrain is particularly contested from a political point of…

— Lucy R. Lippard

[Postmodern photography] implies the exhaustion of the image universe: it suggests that a photographer can find more than enough images already existing in the…

— Andy Grundberg

Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and…

— Will Self

Postmodernism shifts the basis of the work of art from the object to the transaction between the spectator and the object and further deconstructs…

— Arnold Aronson

In fact, the new malleability of the image may eventually lead to a profound undermining of photography's status as an inherently truthful pictorial form...…

— Fred Ritchin

Art can no longer be merely a mirror, it must act as the organizer of the people's consciousness... No form of representation is so…

— El Lissitzky

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Photography has become so fundamental to the way we see that 'photography' and 'seeing' are becoming more and more synonymous. The ubiquity of photography…

— Trevor Paglen