I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism—objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoti… - Barbara 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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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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Most artists will never make money off their work, but that spark, that need to create commentary, to visualize, textualize, and musicalize your experience of the world will continue whether it’s a hot commodity or not. You see that places where that need is shut down, we see oppressiveness and subjugation. That need to create commentary is huge. Most of that commentary will not make a big flip profit for some guy buying a condo on the next block. You have to go in knowing that.

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