"I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too."

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Source : Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

Barbara Kruger

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“In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!”
“George Brett could roll out of bed on Christmas morning and hit a line drive.”
“Success doesn't bring happiness. Only material stuff like money, cars and iPods can do that. And I've already got all that. So I have to find other ways to amuse myself.”
“Very few people really see things unless they've had someone in early life who made them look at things. And name them too. But the looking is primary, the focus.”
“Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots.”
“. . . the labor with which we give birth is simply a rehearsal for something we mothers must do over and over: turn ourselves inside out, and then let go.”
“We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.”
“Chashkin Sar was virgin, and we climbed it for the first time, and afterwards, the people renamed it as Samina Baig.”

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