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The very act of photographing something makes it special and indeed its significance and our understanding of it can change dramatically once it is turned into subject. S.Bright
mad image
"The Photograph then becomes a bizarre medium, a new form of hallucination: false on the level of perception, true on the level of time: a temporal hallucination, so to speak, a modest, shared hallucination: a mad image, chafed by reality" R.B
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Allan Sekula said: 'Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-expression on the part of the artist'.
the mystery man
"when the photographer shows us what he considers to be an Equivalent, he is showing us an expression of a feeling, but this feeling is not the feeling he had for the subject he photographed. what really happened is that he recognised an object or a series of forms that, when photographed, would yield an image with a specific suggestive powers that can direct the viewer into a specific and known feeling, state or place within himself." Minor White
usual blah-blah
" The photograph touches me if I withdraw it from its usual blah-blah: "technique", "reality", "reportage", "art", etc.: to say nothing, to shut my eyes, to allow the detail to rise of its own accord into affective consciousness. " R.B
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