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Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.

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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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Before Century Poverty Priorities Result Scarcity Set World
The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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Back Herself Love Offer Price Product Publicity Stealing
Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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Dwelling Home Hostile Language Men Place Potentially
The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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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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Contribute Memories Photograph Stranger Unknowable
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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Being Depend Envy Experience Glamourous Happiness Illusion Precisely Reassurance Share Solitary
You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest – if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect 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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Bureaucrat Greater Illusion Impersonal Interest Observe Others Power Themselves
What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
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Absorb Activity Draw Else Everything Forget Happen Mean Think Thinking
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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Inspirational Light Material Photography Primary
There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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Artist Drawing Drawn Equal Intimacy Other Truthfulness
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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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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Always Constitute History Past Present Relation
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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Add All Cutting Daily Future Mean Media Modernism Past Presently
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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Doe Drawing Image Imitation Life Photograph Photography Rendering Subject Trace Unlike Viewer Visual
[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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Art Future Innocent Judge never Often Past Revenge Shown Suffer

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