John Divola
American Photographer · 1949–
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> In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime itself; you can never make the equivalent of lying in a quarry at midnight, looking at the moon. . . . Beauty is part of the language of that. I want [my photographs] to be seductive, but they're also about an unattainable desire. > > --John Divola Although the physi
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