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Faster and Faster and Stranger and Stranger

Things are getting faster and faster and stranger and stranger and it’s almost comforting to think that some sort of crystal moment will arrive and a new order will snap out and suddenly everything will be different. – William Gibson

Memory

Memory demands an image. – Bertrand Russell

On Seeing

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. – Oscar Wilde

Over Thinking

Do you really want to follow the next thought, wherever it leads? -Anon

How to take a Photograph

In 1974 Paul Strand was asked how he chose the things he photographed: ‘I don’t,’ he replied. ‘They choose me’ 

Vulgar Photography

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

Valence and Emotion.

Most negatively valenced emotions are not rooted in the present. – Anon

Boring Photo Technology

The technology and sophistication of the present-day camera seems to grow proportionally to the increasingly boring subject matter it records – Steve Pippin

Departure

Standing behind the camera, looking through the viewfinder, closing the shutter, is like momentarily departing the world -Naoya Hatakeyama  Photographer

Privileged Moments

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

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