“To collect photographs is to collect the world.”
― On Photography
― On Photography
“I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say it all. Saying it all is literally impossible: words fail. Yet it's through this very impossibility that the truth holds onto the real.”
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“She feels as if a book is writing itself just behind her; all she has to do is live. But there is nothing.”
― Les Années
― Les Années
“To photograph people is to violate them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed.”
― On Photography
― On Photography
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