Allan Sekula Quotes

How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs?

Allan Sekula

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• Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Good
  • Leadership
  • Teamwork

• An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Youth

• For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Past
  • Beauty
  • White

• Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.

  

  Raf Simons
  • History
  • Culture
  • Question

• Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Time
  • Computers

• My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Know
  • Acting
  • Yourself

• I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • Future
  • Soul

• But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • People
  • Products
  • Buying

• My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Great
  • Character
  • Dad

• I'll post a video, and it might get 10,000 comments, and I'll scroll through and they'll all be lovely and nice - but then they'll be one saying, 'I hate you; I'm unsubscribing' and that's the one that sticks out and stays on your mind all day.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Mind
  • Hate
  • Nice

• At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Clean
  • Sober
  • Ponytail

• Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Art
  • Science
  • Running

• As an actor, there is always an opportunity to learn from the other actors you work with.

  

  KaDee Strickland
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Learn

• If you are a woman, you might feel torn between logical agreement and emotional resistance. Why? It seems like a simpler solution to blame men for the pay gap than to engineer your own bridge to higher pay.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Why
  • Woman

• When I first started performing, the only community that truly got what I was trying to do was the LGBTQ community.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Trying
  • Community
  • First

• I got in trouble for saying I would move my family to Europe, but I said it.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Family
  • Said
  • Saying

• There is no doubt that Stop-and-Frisk does not yield the desired results, and it is apparent that it disproportionately targets minority communities.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • Stop
  • Doubt
  • Results

• A four-hundred-dollar suit on him would look like socks on a rooster.

  

  Earl Long
  • Dollars
  • Four
  • Sarcastic

• It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word -- on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray.

  

  Epictetus
  • Characteristic
  • Discourse
  • Socrates

• Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.

  

  Nan Goldin
  • Life
  • Time
  • Scary

• My biggest fear is losing memory because memory is what we are. Your very soul and your very reason to be alive is tied up in memory.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Fear
  • Memory
  • Losing

• It's definitely particular to each situation, but whether it is a long history or someone that you're intimidated by or someone that you didn't think you ever had a shot at, at the end of the day, I think we're all living through high school, every day.

  

  John Krasinski
  • Long
  • School
  • History

• How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs?

  

  Allan Sekula
  • Photography
  • Memory
  • Relationships