Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Martha Rosler

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American artist Martha Rosler.

Last updated on December 3, 2024.

Martha Rosler is an American artist. She is a conceptual artist who works in photography and photo text, video, installation, sculpture, and performance, as well as writing about art and culture. Rosler's work is centered on everyday life and the public sphere, often with an eye to women's experience. Recurrent concerns are the media and war, as well as architecture and the built environment, from housing and homelessness to places of passage and systems of transport.

American - Artist | Born: July 29, 1943

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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.)

Martha Rosler

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

Martha Rosler

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?

Martha Rosler

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.

Martha Rosler

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

Martha Rosler

The question at hand is the danger posed to truth by computer-manipulated photographic imagery. How do we approach this question in a period in which the veracity of even the straight, unmanipulated photograph has been under attack for a couple of decades.

Martha Rosler

I was concerned with something like the notion of 'language speaking the subject,' and with the transformation of the woman herself into a sign in a system of signs that represent a system of food production, a system of harnessed subjectivity.

Martha Rosler

So much of my work involved the Vietnam War that it would have been obscene to show it in a gallery. But now, it’s different; it’s important to remember and to enable the young to discover what to some of us is still so present.

Martha Rosler

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

Martha Rosler

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

Martha Rosler

The exposé, the compassion and outrage, of documentary fueled by the dedication to reform has shaded over into combinations of exoticism, tourism, voyeurism, psychologism and metaphysics, trophy hunting - and careerism.

Martha Rosler

Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Martha Rosler

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