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amy
is on page 90 of 224
- ‘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.’
— Feb 22, 2026 12:18PM
- '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.’
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amy
is on page 53 of 224
drawing vague boundaries between what is emotionally/spontaneously intolerable and what is not
reactive against gentility, against what is approved
her way of saying fuck vogue, fuck fashion, fuck what’s pretty
what may seem journalistic is rather in the main tradition of surrealist art
a desire to violate her own innocence, undermining her sense of being privileged
— Feb 14, 2026 11:48AM
reactive against gentility, against what is approved
her way of saying fuck vogue, fuck fashion, fuck what’s pretty
what may seem journalistic is rather in the main tradition of surrealist art
a desire to violate her own innocence, undermining her sense of being privileged
amy
is on page 27 of 224
in plato's care
- the notion that is with looking at & the right we have to observe
- voyeuristic
- non-intervention, war; choice between photograph & life (sacrifice/detachment)
- violation
- more memorable than moving images; a slice of time
- anaesthetise
- consumeristic
'participating in another's mortality, an object to time's relentless melt'
'democratise all experiences by translating them into images'
— Feb 06, 2026 01:47PM
- the notion that is with looking at & the right we have to observe
- voyeuristic
- non-intervention, war; choice between photograph & life (sacrifice/detachment)
- violation
- more memorable than moving images; a slice of time
- anaesthetise
- consumeristic
'participating in another's mortality, an object to time's relentless melt'
'democratise all experiences by translating them into images'
