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More than a rejection or dissolution of the past, avant-garde originality is conceived as a literal origin, a beginning from ground zero, a birth.

Rosalind E. Krauss

Photographic cropping is always experienced as a rupture in the continuous fabric of reality.

Rosalind E. Krauss

The frame announces that between the part of reality that was cut away and this part there is a difference; and that this segment which the frame frames is an example of nature-as-representation, nature-as-sign.

Rosalind E. Krauss

Photography's vaunted capture of a moment in time is the seizure and freezing of presence. It is the image of simultaneity, of the way that everything within a given space at a given moment is present to everything else; it is a declaration of the seamless integrity of the real.

Rosalind E. Krauss

Every photograph is the result of a physical imprint transferred by light reflections onto a sensitive surface. The photograph is thus a type of icon, or visual likeness, which bears an indexical relationship to its object.

Rosalind E. Krauss

Rosalind E. Krauss

Rosalind E. Krauss

Born: November 30, 1941 (age 83)

Bio: Rosalind Epstein Krauss is an American art critic, art theorist and a professor at Columbia University in New York City. Krauss is known for her scholarship in 20th-century painting, sculpture and photography.

Known for:

The optical unconscious (1993)
Passages in modern sculpture (1977)
Under Blue Cup (2011)

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