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 RoslerPhotography [can] be seen as a system of representation that you bring to bear on other systems.
Martha RoslerAre 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 RoslerSo 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