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All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precis...more

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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

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To take a picture is to have an interest in things as they are, in the status quo remaining unchanged, to be in complicity with whatever makes a subje...more

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Recently, photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as sex and dancing – which means that, like every mass art form, photography ...more

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Instead of just recording reality photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us thereby changing the very idea of reality and of ...more

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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality and eventually in one's own.

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Life is not about significant details illuminated in a flash fixed forever. Photographs are.

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The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic...more

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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

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Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever.Photographs are.

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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 p...more

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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

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But the very question of whether photography is or is not an art is essentially a misleading one. Although photography generates works that can be cal...more

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To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ab...more

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The photographer is now charging real beasts, beleaguered and too rare to kill. Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecolo...more