Uta Barth famous quotes

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My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself.
-- Uta Barth

#Vision #Addresses #Matter
I keep trying to find ways to shift the viewer's attention away from the object they are looking at and toward their own perceptual process in relation to that object. The question for me always is: how can I make you aware of your own activity of looking, instead of losing your attention to thoughts about what it is that you are looking at?
-- Uta Barth

#Trying #Attention #Way
Everything is pointing to one's own activity of looking, to an awareness and sort of hyper-consciousness of visual perception. The only way I know how to invite this experience is by removing the other things (i.e., subject matter) for you to think about.
-- Uta Barth

#Thinking #Perception #Matter
I have never been interested in making a photograph that describes what the world I live in looks like, but I am interested in what pictures (of the world) look like.
-- Uta Barth

#Looks #World #Photograph
Specificity of time and place drop away and one starts to think about the picture, as much as what it is of.
-- Uta Barth

#Thinking #Specificity
I am interested in the conventions of picture-making, in the desire to picture the world and in our relationship, our continual love for and fascination with pictures.
-- Uta Barth

#Desire #Fascination #World
We all expect photographs to be a picture of something. We assume that the photographer observed a place, a person, an event in the world, and wants to record it, point at itâ€¦The problem with my work is that these images are really not of anything in that sense, they register only that which is incidental and peripheral to the implied it.
-- Uta Barth

#Events #Records #World
When I was sixteen and knew nothing about art, I sat through almost six hours of Andy Warholâ€™s Empire. I did not understand it but thought: this is in a major museum, it must be important, what is going on here? I stayed until the museum closed. His Screen Test films are some of my favorite works made this century, but you need to give them back the time they took to be made.
-- Uta Barth

#Art #Museums #Giving

To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
... The meeting is called by the U.S. to give their vision of the interim Iraqi authority. It will be a one-day meeting. And the U.S. will present its vision, and there will be a statement after the meeting.
Movements of people create change - not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.
If I decided to send this to you, where would I send it? When I think of writing the whole address on the envelope I am paralyzed. It's too painful to think of you in the same place with your life going on in the same way, minus me. And to think of you not there, you somewhere else but I don't know where that is, is worse.
You know, you lose a lot of social skills if youâ€™re a writer. You spend too long alone. And itâ€™s forced me to address that.
Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name.
Funny... I still can't believe in God." "Does that matter now?"..."He believes in you.
Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

Uta Barth famous quotes

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