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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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Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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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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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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