Widarto Adi

“But the most important information that needed to be conveyed was about humans, not about lions and bison. Our language evolved as a way of gossiping.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Contemporary art photography is paradoxical. Anyone can look at it and form an opinion about what they see. Yet it usually represents aesthetic and theoretical positions that only a small minority of well-informed viewers can access.”
― Lucy Soutter, Why Art Photography?

“Genre, then, as a means of study is a way we can examine and discuss the elements and functions of a type of practice. This work of identifying the features and characteristics is theoretical in one sense and critical in being able to understand how it works.”
― David Bate, Photography: The Key Concepts

“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