Now that photography is a digital medium, the ghost of painting is coming to haunt it: photography no longer retains a sense of truth. I think that's great, because it frees photography from factuality, the same way photography freed painting from factuality in the mid-nineteenth century.
Vik MunizWhen someone tells you itโs a grain of sand, thereโs a moment where your reality falls apart and you have to reconstruct it. You have to step back and ask what the image is and what it means.
Vik MunizMy first reaction to finding Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in a book was, Wow, what a great photograph! I could not believe that someone had gone to so much trouble just to end up with a picture.
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