The Hard Crowd Quotes

“God was ejected when we traveled from the closed world to the infinite universe. We were also ejected.”
― Rachel Kushner, The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020

“The special connection to reality, “with which all photography is endowed,” according to Rosalind Krauss, does not quite apply. It does and does not apply. Krauss likens photography to fingerprints. To the rings that cold glasses leave on tables. A photograph, she writes, is closer to a death mask or the tracks of a gull on a beach than it is to a painting or sculpture. It’s the residue of things we see, rather than a reconstruction of things we see.”
― Rachel Kushner, The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020