History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
JOHN BERGERPhotography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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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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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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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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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.
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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What 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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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
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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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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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