Balance9/9/2019 What you exclude from a photograph is as important as what is within the frame. Getting that balance right is the key to engaging the viewer's imagination.
Solitude9/8/2019 Photography allows one to be alone with what and whom one photographs in, at its best, a shared moment of solitude.
Geometry9/7/2019 ‘The geometry, he [HCB] is now saying, comes from what’s there, it’s given to one, if one is in a position to see it.’ (John Berger, ‘A Man Begging in the Metro: Henri Cartier-Bresson’, 1996).
Seen9/6/2019 ‘Nothing is lost, he [Henri Cartier-Bresson] says, all that you have ever seen is always with you.’ (John Berger, ‘A Man Begging in the Metro: Henri Cartier-Bresson’, 1996).
Openness9/5/2019 Once again, Cartier-Bresson on photography: ‘It’s a state of being, a question of openness, of forgetting yourself.’
Intellectuals9/4/2019 ‘For the French, an intellectual didn’t have to be responsible. That wasn’t his job’ - Michel Houellebecq, Submission, p. 221.
Wittgenstein9/3/2019 According to Wittgenstein, it is a mistake `to treat all intellectual endeavours as if they were attempting to be like science’ - John Searle, The Great Philosophers, ed. by Bryan Magee (1987), p. 335.
Alexievich9/1/2019 'I am drawn to that small space called a human being ... a single individual. In reality, that is where everything happens' (Svetlana Alexievich)
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