All art is built around tension and release, which is just another expression for contrast. Typically, contrast is big against small, fat against slim, wide against narrow, and black against white. In photography, contrast is reflected in
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“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
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“In a New York where people are reconceived as consumers, not citizens, it is most profitable to keep everyone moving and disconnected. This is what the hyper-globalized, ultracompetitive city looks and feels like. I saw the perfect word for it scrawled on a wall in the East Village: blandalism. Sleepwalking inside digital bubbles, the iZombies hustle through the city without looking. And you can’t really have compassion for a thing—or a person—without beholding it.”
― Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul
― Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul
“Let’s do what we can. Let’s be a small light in a dark world.”
― Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World
― Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World
“Bullshit makes the flowers grow and that is beautiful”
― Principia Discordia ● Or ● How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger
― Principia Discordia ● Or ● How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger
“Our job is to try to save the world, and failing that, we can at least try to not be part of the problem.”
― Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World
― Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World
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