Performance Art Photography / Performance Art Documentation
The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.
Elliott Erwitt
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder – a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.
On Photography
For me, the interesting thing about performance art is that it will have no tradition, in the sense that the pieces are made for the moment. They are not made to last, the way, say, a play of Shakespeare, Moliere, or Tennessee Williams is. They are events of our time, like a shooting star.
Robert Wilson, “Legend Robert Wilson Talks the Rise — and Rise —
of Performance Art“, Observer, July 29, 2015
Performance Art Photography
