Photography Cannot Record Abstract Ideas (Title of a 16x20 inch photograph depicting an index card on which that phrase is handwritten.) Mel Bochner More Quotes by Mel Bochner More Quotes From Mel Bochner Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism... and as things turned out, it was. Mel Bochner late photography enemy In 1967 there was no place for photography in a contemporary art gallery. It was almost impossible to get an art dealer to look at, let alone exhibit, anything photographic. Mel Bochner photography looks art