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The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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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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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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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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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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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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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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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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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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