Victor Burgin Quotes
![Victor Burgin Quotes: "The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality in favour of an imagined plenitude."](https://www.quoteslyfe.com/images/collection3/quotations1132/The-wholeness-coherence-identity-which-we-attribute-1132928.jpg)
The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality in favour of an imagined plenitude.
![Victor Burgin Quotes: "The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually achieve?"](https://www.quoteslyfe.com/images/collection3/quotations1132/The-only-pertinent-political-question-in-relation-1132930.jpg)
The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually achieve?
Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited in the very act of looking.