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like every mass art form, photography is not practiced by most people as an art. It is mainly a social rite, a defense against anxiety, and a tool of power.
“Everything was real; inconceivably real, infinitely dear. These and all things started as nothing, latent within a vast energy-broth, but then we named them, and loved them, and, in this way, brought them forth. And now we must lose them.”
― Lincoln in the Bardo
― Lincoln in the Bardo
“No me preguntes por qué, porque ni muerta te lo voy a decir. Nunca te voy a decir que te quiero aunque te quiera.”
― Travesuras de la niña mala
― Travesuras de la niña mala
“The photographic moment for Cartier-Bresson is an instant, a fraction of a second, and he stalks that instant as though it were a wild animal. The photographic moment for Strand is a biographical or historic moment, whose duration is ideally measured not by seconds but by its relation to a lifetime. Strand does not pursue an instant, but encourages a moment to arise as one might encourage a story to be told.”
― Understanding a Photograph
― Understanding a Photograph
“Kensuke and his wife had, like all bored people, a sense of kindness that was close to disease.”
― Thirst for Love
― Thirst for Love
“The truth is that most photographs taken of people are about suffering, and most of that suffering is man-made.”
― Understanding a Photograph
― Understanding a Photograph
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