The photograph as an object has a relationship to that which it represents something like the relationship the … - John Divola

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The American people, I think, are tired of being told. They're tired of being told this is as good as it gets. They're tired of being told, like Ronald Reagan used to say, that little intellectual elite in a far distant capital can plan our lives better for us than we can plan them for ourselves.

John Divola

The photograph as an object has a relationship to that which it represents something like the relationship the snake skin has to the snake that sheds it.

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To photograph is often compared to an act of redemption - to select from an infinite number of choices that which is to be remembered.

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In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime itself.

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I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors. . . . You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in the specific and its relationship to the symbolic.

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It's good to be around people who see [photography] as a reasonable enterprise when everyone in the neighborhood may think it's ridiculous. (On the benefit of teaching photography)

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I really don't worry too much about what I see through the viewfinder, at least not at that point, especially if I'm using a flash because I don't know what it's going to do. I just see vague potentiality. It's really working with a set of attributes that will hopefully interact in an interesting way.

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