Sarah Charlesworth Quote

To live in a world of photographs is to live in a world of substitutes... or so it seems, whose actual referent is always the other, the described, the reality of a world once removed. I prefer, on the other hand, to look at the photographs as something real and of my world, a strange and powerful thing... part of a language, a system of communication, an economy of signs.


Sarah Charlesworth: A Retrospective (ed. 1997)


To live in a world of photographs is to live in a world of substitutes... or so it seems, whose actual referent is always the other, the described,...

To live in a world of photographs is to live in a world of substitutes... or so it seems, whose actual referent is always the other, the described,...

To live in a world of photographs is to live in a world of substitutes... or so it seems, whose actual referent is always the other, the described,...

To live in a world of photographs is to live in a world of substitutes... or so it seems, whose actual referent is always the other, the described,...