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Book cover for On Photography
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.
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John Berger
“The truth is that most photographs taken of people are about suffering, and most of that suffering is man-made.”
John Berger, Understanding a Photograph

Vladimir Nabokov
“Yet I have known madness not only in the guise of an evil shadow. I have seen it also as a flash of delight so rich and shattering that the very absence of an immediate object on which it might settle was to me a form of escape.”
Vladimir Nabokov, Look at the Harlequins!

George Saunders
“Only then (nearly out the door, so to speak) did I realize how unspeakably beautiful all of this was, how precisely engineered for our pleasure, and saw that I was on the brink of squandering a wondrous gift, the gift of being allowed, every day, to wander this vast sensual paradise, this grand marketplace lovingly stocked with every sublime thing.”
George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo

Yukio Mishima
“Kensuke and his wife had, like all bored people, a sense of kindness that was close to disease.”
Yukio Mishima, Thirst for Love

George Saunders
“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.”
George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo

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