Clement Greenberg Quote

The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before they are purely pictorial... The photograph has to tell a story if it is to work as art.


The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 4: Modernism with a Vengeance, 1957-1969 (ed. University of Chicago Press, 1995) - ISBN: 9780226306247


The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational...

The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational...

The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational...

The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational...