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	02/26 Johnny gave to: The Ongoing Moment (Paperback) by Geoff Dyer bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
	Johnny said: "Absolutely excellent so far: photography from a non-photographer's perspective. Adds much to the discourse about photography in the same way as Susan Sontag's book, but in a less structured way -- it is more of an exploration that a series of essays....more " add a comment
	01/05 Johnny is currently reading: Meditations (Modern Library Classics) by Marcus Aurelius bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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February 26
	Johnny gave to: The Ongoing Moment (Paperback) by Geoff Dyer bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
	Johnny said: "Absolutely excellent so far: photography from a non-photographer's perspective. Adds much to the discourse about photography in the same way as Susan Sontag's book, but in a less structured way -- it is more of an exploration that a series of essays....more " add a comment
January 05
	Johnny gave to: Postcards from the Trenches: Negotiating the Space between Modernism and the First World War (Hardcover) by Allyson Booth	my rating:
	read in January, 2000 Johnny said: "Good to read alongside Fussel's "Great War and Modern Memory" to really understand how deep the legacy of WW1 is to the fundamental way we see and understand things. " add a comment
	Johnny gave to: The Great War and Modern Memory (Paperback) by Paul Fussell	my rating:
	read in January, 2000 Johnny said: "Another book I keep going back to. Modernism & the Great War are so intertwined. " add a comment
	Johnny gave to: Structure of the Visual Book (Expanded Fourth Edition) by Keith A. Smith	my rating:
	read in January, 1992 Johnny said: "Keep going back to this when thinking about how to sequence images. New edition looks great but I'm too broke to get it right now. " add a comment
	Johnny is currently reading: Meditations (Modern Library Classics) by Marcus Aurelius bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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December 28, 2007
	Johnny added a quote: "We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. ...if you look very intensely and slowly, things will happen that you never dreamed of before." — Aaron Siskind add this quote »
	Johnny joined the Photography group.
	Johnny marked as to-read: Kieslowski on Kieslowski (Paperback) by Krzysztof Kieslowski bookshelves: to-read	my rating:
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	Johnny marked as to-read: Andrei Tarkovsky: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series) by John Gianvito bookshelves: to-read	my rating:
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"We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. ...if you look very intensely and slowly, things will happen that you never dreamed of before."
— Aaron Siskind

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