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I is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World

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“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.”
― Diane Arbus

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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!”
― Ted Grant

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“Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror”
― Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

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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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