Typical of the romantic aesthetic attitudes which continue to prevail today is the notion that there are unique essences within things and people which are ordinarily concealed from us by appearances but which artistic genius can reveal to us. Typical of the “criticism” informed by such notions is the luxury of being equivocal about what is already vague.

Uit: “Photographic Practice and Art Theory”, 1975

Afbeelding: Victor Burgin, Olympia, 1972