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.
JOHN BERGERIf everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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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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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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