Thursday, March 5, 2009

Pieces/Thought Patterns/Warrant (not the hair metal cherry pie kind)

  • Photography invents pasts.
  • To photograph is to confer importance. 
  • 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.
  • What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death. 

Sontag quotes on photography/pornography

Recording people in moments of time to keep for myself, I like to collect things I find beautiful, or interesting, in that moment I see it. Before it changes into something else. It's almost a catalogue of changing visual tastes.

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