The Photobook Quotes

“What Pamuk is also engaging with at this point and throughout the book is the relationship of memory and photography and the argument put forward by Walter Benjamin and other commentators that photography creates a ‘false’ or ‘counter’ memory which results in what Sontag calls the replacement of memory by a photograph.24”
― Patrizia Di Bello, The Photobook: From Talbot to Ruscha and Beyond

“Walter Benjamin: ‘Just as the entire mode of existence of human collectives changes over long historical periods so too does their mode of perception’.14)”
― Patrizia Di Bello, The Photobook: From Talbot to Ruscha and Beyond