Craig Owens Quotes

United States, Musician
August 26, 1984

Craigery "Craig" Owens is an American musician best known as the former lead vocalist of Chiodos. He has also had an involvement in various projects such as badXchannels, Cinematic Sunrise, The Sound of Animals Fighting, Isles & Glaciers, and Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows. He has recorded as a solo artist and appeared in the 2012 film K-11. He currently performs under the stage name badXchannels.

Also known as Vocalist

As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.

Craig Owens Chiodos
- Art
- Desire
- Photography
Representation, then, is not - nor can it be - neutral; it is an act - indeed the founding act - of power in our culture.

Craig Owens Chiodos

Photographs are but one link in a potentially endless chain of reduplication; themselves duplicates (of both their objects and, in a sense, their negatives), they are also subject to further duplication, either through the procedures of printing or as objects of still other photographs.

Craig Owens Chiodos
The postmodernist critique of representation undermines the referential status of visual imagery, its claim to represent reality as it really is - either the appearance of things or some ideal order behind or beyond appearance.

Craig Owens Chiodos