I was never a fan of street photography. I always thought that it was a brutal search on the streets for the most divine grotesquery or the most Othe… - Barbara Kruger

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I was never a fan of street photography. I always thought that it was a brutal search on the streets for the most divine grotesquery or the most Other. I was always suspicious of that. A lot of photographers don’t understand the brutality of that practice. There are some photographers who picture people quite brilliantly; Catherine Opie...is an example. But I think photojournalists are incredibly naïve, and many of them think they have halos over their heads, that they are witnessing this brutality but somehow are apart from it.

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About Barbara Kruger

Barbara Kruger (born 26 January, 1945) is an American conceptual artist.

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Alternative Names: Barbarah Ḳruger Barbarah Kruger Barabra Kruger
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I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism—objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.

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