An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the emotion out of his or her system in a straight line across the landscape; the point at which the anger is conquered is marked with a stick, bearing witness to the strength or length of the rage.
Lucy R. LippardThere is indeed something omnivorous about the act of photography. It offers a way of responding to everything about everything.
Lucy R. LippardA piece of paper or a photograph is as much an object, or as 'material' as a ton of lead.
Lucy R. LippardI must admit to a personal lack of sympathy with women who have themselves photographed in black stockings, garter belts and boots, with bare breasts, bananas, and coy, come-hither glances.... A woman using her own face and body has a right to do what she will with them, but it is a subtle abyss that separates men's use of women for sexual titillation from women's use of women to expose that insult.
Lucy R. Lippard