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To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one...

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Oscar WildeThe Soul of Man Under Socialism

I feel that the Photograph creates my body or mortifies it, according to its caprice (apology of thi...

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Roland BarthesCamera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

The Winter Photograph was my Ariadne, not because it would help me discover a secret thing (monster ...

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Roland BarthesCamera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

We know the original relation of the theater and the cult of the Dead: the first actors separated th...

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Roland BarthesCamera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it rep...

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Roland BarthesCamera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

All children are morbid: it's their one saving grace.

There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evi...

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Give the narrative a lighter tone than you think it deserves, dear boy, lighter than you think you c...

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