Clement Greenberg Quotes about Photography

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Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it proves so difficult to make the photograph transcend its almost inevitable function as document

Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it proves so difficult to make the photograph transcend its almost inevitable function as document and act as a work of art as well.

Clement Greenberg

Photography, Art, Men

Clement Greenberg, John O'Brian (1988). “The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 2: Arrogant Purpose, 1945-1949”, p.60, University of Chicago Press

The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before they are purely pictorial... The photograph has to tell a story if it is to work as art.

Clement Greenberg

Photography, Art, Historical