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Though infested with many bewildering anomalies, photographs are considered our best arbiters between our visual perceptions and the memory of them. It is not only their apparent 'objectivity' that grants photographs their high status in this regard, but our belief that in them, fugitive sensation has been laid to rest.

Max Kozloff

We perceive and interpret the outer world through a set of incredibly fine internal receptors. But we are incapable, by ourselves, of grasping or tweezing out any permanent, sharable figment of it. Practically speaking, we ritually verify what is there, and are disposed to call it reality. But, with photographs, we have concrete proof that we have not been hallucinating all our lives.

Max Kozloff

Max Kozloff

Max Kozloff

Born: June 21, 1933

Died: April 6, 2025 (aged 91)

Bio: Max Kozloff was an American Art Historian, art critic of modern art and photographer. He was art editor at The Nation, and Executive Editor of Artforum.

Known for:

The theatre of the face (2007)
New York (2002)
Lone visions, crowded frames (1994)
Cultivated impasses (2000)
New York Over the Top (2013)

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