Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and critical prerogatives of older, slower literature and handmade visual art.
Peter SchjeldahlThe aesthetic experience has to be given. And beauty is a regular experience of every person - every person who is not clinically depressed!
Peter SchjeldahlMy problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.
Peter Schjeldahl