Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism... and as things turned out, it was.
Mel Bochner
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Photography Cannot Record Abstract Ideas (Title of a 16x20 inch photograph depicting an index card on which that phrase is handwritten.)
Mel Bochner
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In 1967 there was no place for photography in a contemporary art gallery. It was almost impossible to get an art dealer to look at, let alone exhibit, anything photographic.