"When I decided to work in video, I sat down and watched a lot of MTV. In fact one New Year’s Eve I sat home and watched all one hundred top rock videos."

"So fake flat backdrops are used in a perverse sense to respect the nineteenth-century photograph, which that culture used to authenticate itself. It’s my gesture toward 'realism.'"

Peter Wollen: 'How did you first get into video? I guess there is always a shadow to that question: Why video rather than film?"

--An Interview with Steve Fagin, Peter Wollen
OCTOBER

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