Alexander Gardner quotes

Alexander Gardner quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“[My work] is designed to speak for itself. as mementos of the fearful struggle through which the country has just passed, it is confidently hoped that it will possess an enduring interest.”
-- Alexander Gardner

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“Verbal representations of such places or scenes may, or may not, have the merit of accuracy; but photographic presentments of them will be accepted by posterity with an undoubting faith.”
-- Alexander Gardner

Source : Alexander Gardner (1866). “Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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“A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called 'Zen' -not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western clich of Zen that is embraced in advertising, self-help books, and much more. . . . Yamada, who is both a scholar of Buddhism and a student of archery, offers refreshing insight into Western stereotypes of Japan and Japanese culture, and how these are received in Japan.”
-- Alexander Gardner

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