Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Craig Owens

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Craig Owens.
Last updated on November 9, 2024.
Craig Owens

Craigery "Craig" Owens is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist of Chiodos. He has also had an involvement in various projects such as Cinematic Sunrise, The Sound of Animals Fighting, Isles & Glaciers, and Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows. He has recorded as a solo artist, is an established music producer, has written and recorded with the likes of Dr Dre, and has also acted in the 2012 film K-11.

Photographs are but one link in a potentially endless chain of reduplication; themselves duplicates (of both their objects and, in a sense, their negatives), they are also subject to further duplication, either through the procedures of printing or as objects of still other photographs.
Representation, then, is not - nor can it be - neutral; it is an act - indeed the founding act - of power in our culture. — © Craig Owens
Representation, then, is not - nor can it be - neutral; it is an act - indeed the founding act - of power in our culture.
The postmodernist critique of representation undermines the referential status of visual imagery, its claim to represent reality as it really is - either the appearance of things or some ideal order behind or beyond appearance.
As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.
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