Craig Owens (critic) Quotes

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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

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

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

Craig Owens