I use the camera as a dumb copying device that only serves to document whatever phenomenon appears before it through the conditions set by a system. No esthetic choices are possible. Other people often make the photographs. It makes no difference.


Origin and Destination: Alighiero E Boetti, Douglas Huebler (ed. Societe Des Expositions Du Palais Des Beaux-Arts De Bruxelle, 1997)

Douglas Huebler Quotes

I use the camera as a dumb copying device that only serves to document whatever phenomenon appears before it through the conditions set by a system....

I use the camera as a dumb copying device that only serves to document whatever phenomenon appears before it through the conditions set by a system....

I use the camera as a dumb copying device that only serves to document whatever phenomenon appears before it through the conditions set by a system....

I use the camera as a dumb copying device that only serves to document whatever phenomenon appears before it through the conditions set by a system....