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“Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.”
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“To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.”
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“Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.”
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“It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph -- only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.”
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“Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it.”
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“It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel.”
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“I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them”
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“Perversity is the muse of modern literature”
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“To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.”
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“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”
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“Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.”
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