Gilles Peress quotes
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“I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.”
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“Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality.”
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“I'm proposing to you that photography is a language on its own, which is that when you look at images you do derive ideas; and I'm also proposing to you that you can derive ideas without going through words. So I'm forcing you to really look. And this process of looking, it's like a new set of ideas that are being proposed to you.”
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“I am bad at memory - this is why I shoot pictures.”
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“We are entering into an age in which visual language is defined by a dialogue between photographers and audiences. This means not just the democratic posting of images but the democratic interpretation of images.”
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“I think I've got a peculiar disease. I call it the curse of history, and it has to do with the fugitive absence/presence of both personal and collective memory. At first I thought it was a kind of personal illness, just related to time, private time, time that passes in one's life. So I decided to forget and throw myself into the future.”
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“[The photograph is] still a space to reorganize our thoughts about reality and our place in the world. How do you disentangle the surface of reality?”
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“A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.”
Source : A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.93, Egmont UK
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“The things that make me different are the things that make me.”
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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“Freedom is never given; it is won.”
Source : Keynote speech given at the Second National Negro Congress, 1937.
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Source : "I Hate the News" by Aaron Swartz, www.aaronsw.com. October 20, 2006.
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