Sarah Charlesworth Professions : Artist Born : March 29, 1947 Died : June 25, 2013 Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by Sarah Charlesworth To live in a world of photographs is to live in a world of substitutes... or so it seems, whose actual referent is always the other, the described, the reality of a world once removed. I prefer, on the other hand, to look at the photographs as something real and of my world, a strange and powerful thing... part of a language, a system of communication, an economy of signs. Sarah Charlesworth communication powerful real Frequently these loaded images or objects are used by me without my attaching a particular significance to them. In other words, what I'm doing is letting whatever power, whatever affect they have, work on its own. Sarah Charlesworth significance particular used I turned to photography because I thought it was the dominant language of our culture. Sarah Charlesworth language photography culture I don't think of myself as a photographer. I've engaged questions regarding photography's role in culture... but it is an engagement with a problem rather than a medium. Sarah Charlesworth photography culture thinking I think that a symbolism is attached to particular images, becomes marked in the unconscious. To exorcise it, to rearrange it, to reshape it, to make it my own, involves unearthing it, describing it, deploying it inform, and then rearranging it. Sarah Charlesworth rearranging symbolism thinking Similar Authors Burton Silverman artist Bruce Nauman artist Bruce Conner artist Brom artist Britney Spears artist Brigid Berlin artist All Authors
