Craig Owens Quotes

• Photographs are but one link in a potentially endless chain of reduplication; themselves duplicates (of both their objects and, in a sense, their negatives), they are also subject to further duplication, either through the procedures of printing or as objects of still other photographs.

  Craig Owens

  Links, Photograph, Printing

  Craig Owens, Scott Stewart Bryson (1994). “Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture”, p.26, Univ of California Press

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• Representation, then, is not - nor can it be - neutral; it is an act - indeed the founding act - of power in our culture.

  Craig Owens

  Culture, Founding, Representation

  Craig Owens, Scott Stewart Bryson (1994). “Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture”, p.91, Univ of California Press

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• As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.

  Craig Owens

  Photography, Art, Desire

  Craig Owens, Scott Stewart Bryson (1994). “Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture”, p.56, Univ of California Press

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• The postmodernist critique of representation undermines the referential status of visual imagery, its claim to represent reality as it really is - either the appearance of things or some ideal order behind or beyond appearance.

  Craig Owens

  Reality, Order, Appearance

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