Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
JOHN BERGERWhat makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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