Cheerful philosophical idea of the day: Epiphenomenalism The doctrine that consciousness is a mere accessory and accompaniment of physiological processes and is powerless to affect these processes.
Cheerful philosophical idea of the day: Epiphenomenalism The doctrine that consciousness is a mere accessory and accompaniment of physiological processes and is powerless to affect these processes.
Colour tends to corrupt photography and absolute colour corrupts absolutely . . . There are four simple words for the matter which must be whispered: colour photography is vulgar. – Walker Evans – 1969
Most negatively valenced emotions are not rooted in the present. – Anon
The technology and sophistication of the present-day camera seems to grow proportionally to the increasingly boring subject matter it records – Steve Pippin
The remains of something deceased photographed with an infrared camera in the hills of La Gomera
Standing behind the camera, looking through the viewfinder, closing the shutter, is like momentarily departing the world -Naoya Hatakeyama Photographer
Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Television is a stream of underselected images, each of which cancels its predecessor. Each still photograph is a privileged moment, turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again. – Sunsan Sontag – On Photography