John Divola quotes
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“To photograph is often compared to an act of redemption - to select from an infinite number of choices that which is to be remembered.”
-- John DivolaSource : Virginia Heckert, Judy Fiskin, John Divola (2011). “Some Aesthetic Decisions: The Photographs of Judy Fiskin”, p.16, Getty Publications
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“The photograph as an object has a relationship to that which it represents something like the relationship the snake skin has to the snake that sheds it.”
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“I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors.... You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in the specific and its relationship to the symbolic.”
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“In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime itself.”
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“It's good to be around people who see [photography] as a reasonable enterprise when everyone in the neighborhood may think it's ridiculous. (On the benefit of teaching photography)”
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“I really don't worry too much about what I see through the viewfinder, at least not at that point, especially if I'm using a flash because I don't know what it's going to do. I just see vague potentiality. It's really working with a set of attributes that will hopefully interact in an interesting way.”
-- John Divola
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Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Source : "Who is Abdullah Ocalan?" by Beat Witschi, www.cnn.com. May 12, 2005.
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Source : Adam Grant (2013). “Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success”, p.12, Penguin
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“Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.”
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“You cannot amputate your history from your destiny, because that is redemption.”
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