Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
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Strictly speaking, nothing that’s said is true. (Though one can be the truth, one can’t ever say it.)
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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...
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon 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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.
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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...
