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“The Bechdel test. You can use it to check if two women characters in a film, novel, or whatever talk about something other than men.” I go back to cutting. “It’s about fiction, but I really don’t think you and I would pass it in real
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Breaking the fourth wall in a sense lol
“With time, many staged photographs turn back into historical evidence, albeit of an impure kind - like most historical evidence.”
― Regarding the Pain of Others
― Regarding the Pain of Others
“Beautifying is one classic operation of the camera, and it tends to bleach out a moral response to what is shown. Uglifying, showing something at its worst, is a more modern function: didactic, it invites an active response. For photographs to accuse, and possibly to alter conduct, they must shock.”
― Regarding the Pain of Others
― Regarding the Pain of Others
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