“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 people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.”
― On Photography
― On Photography
“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.”
― Crush
― Crush
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