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"Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does."
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"Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time."
Experience
"Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored."
Dogs
"Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon."
Travel
"Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does."
Photography
"Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all."
Death
"Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream."
Life
"What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time."
Time
"Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature."
Nature
"Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present."
Media
"Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress."
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"With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph."
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"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind."
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"She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes."
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"In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated."
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"When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days."
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"In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners."
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"The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century."
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"I've been working with photography for many years."
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"Today my passion is still black and white. Today if I have an array of cameras in front of me the one I would reach for that I would feel most comfortable with would be a 4 X 5 View camera. I was once working in a sort of soft light situation."
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"For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom."
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