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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Roland Barthes

A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic time; and the photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony.
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History Invention Photography Review
Every exploration is an appropriation.
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Appropriate Exploration
Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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Myself Painting Reality See
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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Confession Inflexion Lying
All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.
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Death Determination Photography Young
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Invisible Photograph See
Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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Fantasy Greatness Mythology Photography
Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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Mourning Myself Suffering
What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Bare Energy Love One Liner
Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language – the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s.
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I Love You Language Lose Myself Point
In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder, like winnicott’s psychotic patient, over a catastrophe which has already occurred. Whether or not the subject is already dead, every photograph is this catastrophe.
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Children Death Fear Mom Myself Patient Photography
Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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Fragile Soft Talk Tender Yourself
The photographer, like an acrobat, must defy the laws of probability or even of possibility; at the limit, he must defy those of the interesting: the photograph becomes surprising when we do not know why it has been taken.
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Known Law Limitation Photography Possible
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
I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.
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Body Desire Life Love Myself
One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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Mouth Oneself Speaking Time Tongue

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