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To grant only the famous their names demotes the rest to representative instances of their occupations, their ethnicities, their plights.

For the other, even when not an enemy, is regarded only as someone to be seen, not someone (like us) who also sees.

They confirm that this is the sort of thing which happens in that place. The ubiquity of those photographs, and those horrors, cannot help but modish belief in the inevitability of tragedy in the benighted or backward - that is, poor - parts of the world

The more remote or exotic the place, the more likely we are to have full frontal views of the dead and dying

It is the same intelligence whose weapons of annihilation can locate the enemy to the exact second and meter that labours to preserve the great historical event in fine detail.

The frankest representations of war, and of disaster injured bodies, are those that seem to be foreign, therefore least likely to be known. With subjects closer to home, the photographer is expected to be more discreet.

To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.

“If the honor and wisdom and joy of such a reading are not to be my own, then let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my own place be in hell. Let me be tortured and battered and annihilated, but let there be one instant, one creature, wherein thy enormous Library find its justification.”

“You would inspire pity in my if you did not inspire horror”

An ant cursing God from the summit of a blade of grass