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“To the extent that money, with its colourlessness and its indifferent quality, can become a common denominator of all values, it becomes the frightful leveller — it hollows out the core of things, their peculiarities, their specific values and their uniqueness and incomparability in a way which is beyond repair.”
― Georg Simmel, The Metropolis and Mental Life

“For me, the Photographer's organ is not his eye (which terrifies me) but his finger: what is linked to the trigger of the lens, to the metallic shifting of the plates (when the camera still has such things).”
― Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

“Certain details may "prick" me. If they do not, it is doubtless because the photographer has put them there intentionally.”
― Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

“...if only Photography could give me a neutral, anatomic body, a body which signifies nothing! Alas, I am doomed by (well-meaning) Photography always to have an expression: my body never finds its zero degree, no one can give it to me (perhaps only my mother? For it is not indifference which erases the weight of the image—the Photomat always turns you into a criminal type, wanted by the police—but love, extreme love).”
― Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography