Victor Burgin Quotes

• A job the artist does which no-one else does is to dismantle existing communication codes and to combine some of their elements into structures which can be used to generate new pictures of the world.

  Victor Burgin

  Jobs, Communication, Artist

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• The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality in favour of an imagined plenitude.

  Victor Burgin

  Reality, Identity, Coherence

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• Looking is not indifferent. There can never be any question of 'just looking'.

  Victor Burgin

  Indiferente

  Victor Burgin, Alexander Streitberger (2009). “Situational Aesthetics: Selected Writings by Victor Burgin”, p.118, Leuven University Press

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• Even the uncaptioned art photograph is invaded by language in the very moment it is looked at: in memory, in association, snatches of words and images continually intermingle and exchange one for the other.

  Victor Burgin

  Art, Memories, Association

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• Parece que los fotógrafos creen a pies juntillas que los significados se encuentran en el mundo del mismo modo que se encuentran conejos en los descensos, y que todo lo que se necesita es el talento para detectarlos y la habilidad para fotografiarlos... Pero esos momentos de verdad que el oportunista fotográfico espera, con el dedo en el botón, son una mistificación tan grande como la noción de creatividad autónoma.

  Victor Burgin

  Creativity, Skills, Waiting

  Victor Burgin, Alexander Streitberger (2009). “Situational Aesthetics: Selected Writings by Victor Burgin”, p.64, Leuven University Press

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• Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited in the very act of looking.

  Victor Burgin

  Photograph, Conviction, Complicity

  Victor Burgin (1982). “Thinking photography”

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• La única pregunta política pertinente en relación con una identidad [o su fotografía] no es ¿Es realmente coherente? sino ¿Qué consigue realmente?

  Victor Burgin

  Political, Identity, Doe

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