Widarto Adi

“In the wake of the Cognitive Revolution, gossip helped Homo sapiens to form larger and more stable bands. But even gossip has its limits. Sociological research has shown that the maximum ‘natural’ size of a group bonded by gossip is about 150 individuals. Most people can neither intimately know, nor gossip effectively about, more than 150 human beings.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“language evolved as a way of gossiping. According to this theory Homo sapiens is primarily a social animal. Social cooperation is our key for survival and reproduction. It is not enough for individual men and women to know the whereabouts of lions and bison. It’s much more important for them to know who in their band hates whom, who is sleeping with whom, who is honest, and who is a cheat.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“the only thing in which I have been actually thorough has been in being thoroughly unprepared. Alfred Stieglitz”
― Anonymous

“Photography theory is most often situated between art history, film theory, and communication studies”
― David Bate, Photography: The Key Concepts