Martha Rosler famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Take the Money and Run? Can Political and Socio-Critical Art â€˜Surviveâ€™?
-- Martha Rosler

#Running #Art #Political
So much of my work involved the Vietnam War that it would have been obscene to show it in a gallery. But now, itâ€™s different; itâ€™s important to remember and to enable the young to discover what to some of us is still so present.
-- Martha Rosler

#War #Important #Different
I was concerned with something like the notion of 'language speaking the subject,' and with the transformation of the woman herself into a sign in a system of signs that represent a system of food production, a system of harnessed subjectivity.
-- Martha Rosler

#Subjectivity #Transformation #Language
Photography [can] be seen as a system of representation that you bring to bear on other systems.
-- Martha Rosler

#Photography #Bears #Representation
Any familiarity with photographic history shows that manipulation is integral to photography.
-- Martha Rosler

#Photography #Manipulation #Shows
Documentary is a little like horror movies, putting a face on fear and transforming threat into fantasy, into imagery. One can handle imagery by leaving it behind. (It is them, not us.)
-- Martha Rosler

#Leaving #Littles #Faces
How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story?
-- Martha Rosler

#Knowing #Stories #Way
The question at hand is the danger posed to truth by computer-manipulated photographic imagery. How do we approach this question in a period in which the veracity of even the straight, unmanipulated photograph has been under attack for a couple of decades.
-- Martha Rosler

#Couple #Hands #Computer
Are we asserting the easy dominion of our civilization over all times and all places, as signs that we casually absorb as a form of loot?
-- Martha Rosler

#Civilization #Dominion #Easy
The exposé, the compassion and outrage, of documentary fueled by the dedication to reform has shaded over into combinations of exoticism, tourism, voyeurism, psychologism and metaphysics, trophy hunting - and careerism.
-- Martha Rosler

#Compassion #Dedication #Hunting
Just going out on a foray to assemble a collection of street trophies about this or that running social sore can't be effective - and never was.
-- Martha Rosler

#Running #Going Out #Trophies

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