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Peter C Bunnell is an accomplished author born in 1937. His works span various genres and are renowned for their profound insights and rich imagination.

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“Each image suggests an inner reality, a kind of scar of the past, a reflection of an act or an event once lived.”

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Book:Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography

Source: Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography

“You see in the photograph what you are.”

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Book:Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography

Source: Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography

“In a sense, photographs are highly literary, and the photographer, like the writer, has to be both a master of craft and a visionary. Patient accumulation of facts and then speculation about their meaning is the nature of authorship in both mediums.”

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“In photography, the issue of the integration of form and content is exceptionally difficult because of the widely held belief that photographs must be a kind of vicarious experience of the subject itself.”

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Book:Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography

Source: Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography

“The nineteenth-century way of looking at the photograph was as a mirror for the memory, and at that time the photographs almost looked like mirrors, with their polished metallic surfaces.”

Way Memories Century Mirrors Photograph Surface Nineteenth Century Polished Metallic

Book:Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography

Source: Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography

“Full-color images lack the poignancy of monochrome... Black-and-white film inherently peels off interesting images from the world; it sees things we do not see, and thus insists on the existence of a phantom presence within reality, a world we cannot perceive.”

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Book:Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography

Source: Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography

“Photographs freed from the scientific bias can, and indeed usually do, have double meanings, implied meanings, unintended meanings, can hint and insinuate, and may even mean the opposite of what they apparently mean.”

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Book:Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography

Source: Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography

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Born: 1937
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