“To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.”
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A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
