Intrusion10/19/2019 Reflecting on his inspiring series of photographs of his mentally ill brother, Louis Quail writes: `I’m more inclined to believe that being ignored is worse than being intruded upon’ (Big Brother, p. 10).
Before10/18/2019 `Before being artists, photographers or consumers, we are people’ - Luigi Ghirri, cited by Maria Antonella Pelizzari, ‘Luigi Ghirri’s Necessary Image’, in Luigi Ghirri: The Map and the Territory, p. 29
Engagement10/16/2019 `Although photography may appear to be a distinctive object of the contemplative life (vita contemplativa), a moment in which all movements have been eliminated, it is actually deeply embedded in the active life (vita activa); it attests to action and continues to take part in it, always engaged in an ongoing present that challenges the very distinction between contemplation and action. The photograph always includes a supplement that makes it possible to show that what “was there” wasn’t there necessarily in that way.’ - Ariella Azoulay, The Civil Contract of Photography, p. 90)
Elimination10/15/2019 'Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain. There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred pages are there. Only you don’t see them' - Elie Wiesel, Paris Review, Spring 1984.
Photomontage10/14/2019 Luigi Ghirri writing from Milan in 1979: `Reality is being transformed into a colossal photograph, and the photomontage already exists: it’s called the real world’.
Understanding10/12/2019 |