Charlotte Cotton famous quotes

I think that the role of curating an exhibition is to reanimate history and make it relevant to a contemporary viewer.
-- Charlotte Cotton

#Thinking #Relevant

Your image is your currency in this world.
-- Charlotte Cotton

#World #Currency

Photography's relationship with ***** is as old as photography. That kind of unholy relationship is formed from the very beginning, and there's a reason why: it's thoroughly enjoyable to be that voyeuristic. Voyeurism is a very old modality, and most of the history of photography is in some way related voyeurism.
-- Charlotte Cotton

#Photography #Kind #Reason

In an era where digital or virtual is the default, the actual coming together into a physical space has to be an experience that you don't want to miss.
-- Charlotte Cotton

#Missing #Together

There's something quite magical that can happen when a secret is no longer a secret - or is a shared secret or a common secret. By allowing those boundaries to be porous, certain forms of oppression may be lifted.
-- Charlotte Cotton

#Secret #Common #Oppression

I love bells, clocks, watches - and I recall that at first photographic implements were related to techniques of cabinetmaking and the machinery of precision: cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing.
-- Charlotte Cotton

#Love Is #Clock

Every time you enter a space, you are on public display. Nothing is private.
-- Charlotte Cotton

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Photography is, and has been since its conception, a fabulously broad church. Contemporary practice demonstrates that the medium can be a prompt, a process, a vehicle, a collective pursuit, and not just the physical end product of solitary artists' endeavors.
-- Charlotte Cotton

#Photography #Artist #Practice

The real beauty of the time we're living through is that we can deploy our self-image in ways that can have radical social implications.
-- Charlotte Cotton

#Real #Real Beauty #Radical

More platform-sensitive generations will make distinctions between online and in-person intimacy, whereas fourteen-year-olds have very nuanced online selves and might embody their virtual identity in the physical, analogue version of themselves. They have a much more pluralistic understanding of the self. I don't think we'd be here now in this amazing sexual and gender revolution without the online space where young people can see and share other versions of identity and sexuality.
-- Charlotte Cotton

#Thinking #People #Understanding

We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers.
-- Charlotte Cotton

#Civilization #Editors #Photographer

The internet does not adhere to the inherent, necessary asymmetry of high-versus-low-art categorizations that we use in the cultural sector: in a banal sense, all photographs on the Web are orphans ready to be claimed.
-- Charlotte Cotton

#Art #Doe #Asymmetry

I have to admit to you, I am the person who's done probably the least analysis on the selfie, because it's a bit like ***** for me. It's this masturbatory, repetitive act that I'd rather wasn't part of my routine.
-- Charlotte Cotton

#Done #Pornography #Repetitive

The limitation of the vlog format is that it may seem to give people enough, when they actually have no real autonomy.
-- Charlotte Cotton

#Real #People #Giving

I think the twenty-first-century modality is exhibitionism. Exhibitionism is our contemporary strategy for maintaining our boundaries, which is to be boundary-less - to put everything out there before somebody comes and violates or penetrates something that we're keeping sacred.
-- Charlotte Cotton

#Thinking #Strategy #Boundaries