Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes:
Ocupation: Philosopher
Life: March 14, 1908 - May 3, 1961
Birthday: March 14
Death: May 3
The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.
source: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Galen A. Johnson, Michael B. Smith (1993). “The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting”, p.145, Northwestern University Press
topic: Metamorphosis, Photograph, Overtaking, Overlapping
