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

“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

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

“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