Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
ROLAND BARTHES
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Mourning
Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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Language is never innocent.
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The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The ‘anything whatever’ then becomes the sophisticated acme of value.
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Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time.
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Physically, the Ventoux is dreadful. Bald, it’s the spirit of Dry: Its climate (it is much more an essence of climate than a geographic place) makes it a damned terrain, a testing place for heroes, something like a higher hell.
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A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language – the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s.
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Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?
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A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
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We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
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It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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