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.
JOHN BERGER
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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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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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.
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What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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