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 BERGERPhotography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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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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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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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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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 animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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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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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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