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“the feeling of being exempt from calamity stimulates interest in looking at painful pictures, and looking at them suggests and strengthens the feeling that one is exempt . partly it is because one is “here”, not “there”, and partly it is the character of inevitability that all events acquire when they are transmuted into images.”
— Apr 06, 2025 12:29PM
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maria
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“while many people in non-industrialised countries still feel apprehensive when being photographed, divining it to be some kind of trespass, an act of disrespect, a sublimated looting of the personality or the culture, people in industrialised countries seek to have their photographs taken - feel that they are images, and are made real by photographs.”
— Apr 06, 2025 08:18AM
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is on page 148 of 207
“although photography generates works that can be called art - it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure - photography is not, to begin with, an art form at all. like language, it is a medium in which works of art (among other things) are made.”
— Apr 05, 2025 09:42AM
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“because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. now nature - tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people. when we are afraid, we shoot. but when we are nostalgic, we take pictures.”
— Feb 07, 2025 08:57AM
