Peter Wollen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Photography is motionless and frozen, it has the cryogenic power to preserve objects through time without decay.
-- Peter Wollen

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The aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices stopping time and preserving fragments of the past, like flies in amber.
-- Peter Wollen

#Photography #Past #Stopping
For photography to be an art involves reformulating notions of art, rejecting both material and formal purism and also the separation of art from commerce as distinct semiotic practices that never interlock.
-- Peter Wollen

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The lover of photography is fascinated both by the instant and by the past. The moment captured in the image is of near-zero duration and is located in a ever-receding then. At the same time, the spectator's now, the moment of looking at the image, has no fixed duration. It can be extended as long as fascination lasts and endlessly reiterated as long as curiosity returns.
-- Peter Wollen

#Photography #Zero #Past

Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? "I'm glad you asked that. I've been wanting to say this for years. Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art - when it is in the hands of artists."
Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital 'A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I feel is the picture I am making, the relation of that picture to others I have made and, more generally, its relation to others I have experienced.
Mutability is written upon all things.
The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.
Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
It takes courage and intelligence, you know, to do the stages of Yoga right, and to start with this Hatha Yogaâ€¦ Itâ€™s just you and nothing but you, standing in one spot frozen like a statue with no place to go for help or excuse or scapegoat except inward.
If we are to create tomorrow's jobs, we can't remain frozen in time in yesterday's tax system.
Universe consists of frozen light.

Peter Wollen famous quotes

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