Top 5 Uta Barth Quotes

#1. Everything is pointing to one's own activity of looking, to an awareness and sort of hyper-consciousness of visual perception. The only way I know how to invite this experience is by removing the other things (i.e., subject matter) for you to think about.

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#2. My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself.

Uta Barth

#3. I am interested in the conventions of picture-making, in the desire to picture the world and in our relationship, our continual love for and fascination with pictures.

Uta Barth

#4. Specificity of time and place drop away and one starts to think about the picture, as much as what it is of.

Uta Barth

#5. I have never been interested in making a photograph that describes what the world I live in looks like, but I am interested in what pictures (of the world) look like.

Uta Barth

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