These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
JOHN BERGERThe contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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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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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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