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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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I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.

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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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I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

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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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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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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.

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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.

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Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.