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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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Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in ...more

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As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insec...more

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It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear endearing touching precious. At least the past is safe-though we didn't know...more

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We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the

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Time does not give one much leeway: it thrusts us forward from behind, blows us through the narrow tunnel of the present into the future. But space is...more