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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.

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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality… could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.
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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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Allow Artist Certain Colour Comparitively Dominate Easy Mute Together Unity
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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Art Future Innocent Judge never Often Past Revenge Shown Suffer
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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Art Bourgeoisie Cinema Discover Learn People Popular Princes Single Sky Vagrant
Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Community Everything Exist Meaningless Photograph
The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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