As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image. Craig Owens More Quotes by Craig Owens More Quotes From Craig Owens Representation, then, is not - nor can it be - neutral; it is an act - indeed the founding act - of power in our culture. Craig Owens founding representation culture Photographs are but one link in a potentially endless chain of reduplication; themselves duplicates (of both their objects and, in a sense, their negatives), they are also subject to further duplication, either through the procedures of printing or as objects of still other photographs. Craig Owens printing photograph links The postmodernist critique of representation undermines the referential status of visual imagery, its claim to represent reality as it really is - either the appearance of things or some ideal order behind or beyond appearance. Craig Owens appearance order reality We’re doing this in order to be transparent going forward. Craig Owens
