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As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.

Roland Barthes

It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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Character Consider Myself Novel
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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Blame Guilty Myself Power
Why is it better to last than to burn?
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Better Burn Last Myself
Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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Hard Time Ourselves Suffering
I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time.
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Arrival Lose Myself Time
Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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Fantasy Greatness Mythology Photography
He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.
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Himself Life Reading Story
If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility is not a “weakness” or an “absurdity”: it is a strong sign: the more futile, the more it signifies and the more it asserts itself as strength.)
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Acknowledge Demand Depend Myself Sign Strength Strong
I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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Absence Myself Responsibility World
Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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Failure Obligation Reading Story
Every exploration is an appropriation.
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Appropriate Exploration
Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
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Fear Photography Scare Thinking
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
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Desire Fingers Language Myself Skin Tremble Word
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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Patience Power Wait
Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?
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Better Burn Evaluation Kind Love
Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.
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Experience Fashion Past Present Refusal

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