Status Updates From Sobre Fotografia

The Picture-taking serves a high purpose: Uncovering a hidden truth, Conserving a vanishing past.

Goes hard, buja aż za bardzo i trzeba robić przerwy, żeby nie przedawkować

- ‘the ubiquitous photographer operates as if activity transcends class interests’
- 'the camera cannot help but reveal faces as social masks'
- ‘described as a quotation’
- ‘the task of recording a disappearing world but were so employed by those hastening its disappearance’
- ‘instant antiques’
- ‘photographers … suggest the vanity of even trying to understand the world and instead propose we collect it.’

I feel like this book will be the most impressive book I will read this year. Each sentence requires some time to digest and understand

"To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as the camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a sublimated murder—a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time."