Quotes:
“What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.”

“A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.”

“The photographic image... is a message without a code.”

“The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.”

“All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.”

“Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.”

“There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it”

“Very often (too often in my view) I was aware of being photographed. So, from the moment I feel I am in the camera's eye, everything changes: I begin to pose, I immediately create a different body, I change even before the image.”






Give me a link to a work (or more) that you consider to have few favs and I'll feature it in my next journal.