“In 1888 Kodak introduced the Box Brownie, an inexpensive portable camera which would go on to make performers of us all.”
Quote of the week: Performing for the camera
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“Everything has been photographed before, but not everything has been thought about.”
Quote of the week: thinking
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“Such ‘tiled rendering’ is a standard means of constructing digital imagery. It is a good metaphor for how the world is visualized today. We assemble a world from pieces, assuming that what we see is both coherent and equivalent to reality, Until we discover it is not.”
Quote of the week: how we see the world
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“I could not help thinking that since photography had liberated the modern painter from the drudgery of faithful representation, this field would become the exclusive one of photography, helping it to become an art in its own right.”
Quote of the week: Man Ray on photography
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“No human being is only a Muslim and no human being is only an American. The people one might call Muslims, or Americans are also women and men; mothers, fathers daughters and sons; lovers and doctors and writers and schoolteachers; poor and wealthy; politically engaged and apathetic; sure in their beliefs and utterly uncertain. They are in other words complex multi-dimensional, unique and ever-changing”
Quote of the week: human beings
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“The commodification of the photograph dulled the possible creativity of the new technology, by the desire to reproduce a set of conventions already established within painted portraiture”
Quote of the week: photography and commodity culture
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