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“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!”
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“Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror”
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“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”
― Susan Sontag

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