Martha Rosler Quotes

Any familiarity with photographic history shows that manipulation is integral to photography.

Photography [can] be seen as a system of representation that you bring to bear on other systems.

Documentary is a little like horror movies, putting a face on fear and transforming threat into fantasy, into imagery. One can handle imagery by leaving it behind. (It is them, not us.)

Take the Money and Run? Can Political and Socio-Critical Art ‘Survive’?

Just going out on a foray to assemble a collection of street trophies about this or that running social sore can't be effective - and never was.

How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story?

Are we asserting the easy dominion of our civilization over all times and all places, as signs that we casually absorb as a form of loot?