Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Victor Burgin

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British artist Victor Burgin.

Last updated on October 16, 2024.

Victor Burgin is a British artist and writer. Burgin first came to attention as a conceptual artist in the late 1960s and at that time was most noted for being a political photographer of the left, who would fuse photographs and words in the same picture. He has worked with photography and film, calling painting "the anachronistic daubing of woven fabrics with coloured mud". His work is influenced by a variety of theorists and philosophers, most especially thinkers such as Sigmund Freud, Henri Lefebvre, André Breton, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes.

British - Artist | Born: 1941

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Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited in the very act of looking.

Victor Burgin

Looking is not indifferent. There can never be any question of 'just looking'.

Victor Burgin

The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality in favour of an imagined plenitude.

Victor Burgin

It seems to be extensively believed by photographers that meanings are to be found in the world much in the way rabbits are found in downs, and all that is required is the talent to spot them and the skill to shoot them... But those moments of truth for which the photographic opportunist waits, finger on the button, are as great a mystification as the notion of autonomous creativity.

Victor Burgin

The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually achieve?

Victor Burgin

A job the artist does which no-one else does is to dismantle existing communication codes and to combine some of their elements into structures which can be used to generate new pictures of the world.

Victor Burgin

Even the uncaptioned art photograph is invaded by language in the very moment it is looked at: in memory, in association, snatches of words and images continually intermingle and exchange one for the other.

Victor Burgin

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Victor Burgin

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