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“If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.”

Quote by John Berger

Book:Selected Essays of John Berger

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Selected Essays of John Berger

This book features a selection of essays written by John Berger, exploring various themes and subjects with his characteristic depth and insight. more

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John Berger, born on November 5, 1926 and died on January 2, 2017, was a renowned British art critic and writer. His work spanned across various fields including painting, photography, and literature, known for his unique perspective and profound insights. more

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“A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory. These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.”

Interest Natural Increase Meetings Photographer Photograph Contradiction Viewers Contradictory Ambiguity

Book:Another Way of Telling: A Possible Theory of Photography

Source: Another Way of Telling: A Possible Theory of Photography

“The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.”

Play Form Photograph Invisible

Book:Selected Essays of John Berger

Source: Selected Essays of John Berger

“If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.”

Ifs Memories Photograph Stranger

Book:Selected Essays of John Berger

Source: Selected Essays of John Berger

“My idealism has not abated, but I have witnessed it withering away nationwide, to the point where at least among the young, to have ideals is akin to being blinkered and oldfashioned.”

Young Ideals Idealism Withering

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“I have never once been persuaded as to the causal link between the Iraqi regime, al-Qaeda and September 11. I do believe the impact of war under these circumstances is bound to weaken the international coalition against terrorism itself.”

Believe War Circumstances Impact Bounds International Terrorism Als Links Regimes September September 11 Al Qaeda Coalitions

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“I'm not one of those fellows that is just going to have a psuedo-middling relationship.”

Author:Russell Crowe

“Two large prominent eyes that rolled about to no purpose (for he was utterly short-sighted) a wide mouth, thick lips and inflated visage, gave him the air of a blind trumpeter. A deep untuneable voice which, instead of modulating, he enforced with unnecsessary pomp, a total neglect of his person, and ignorance of every civil attention, disgusted all who judge by appearance.”

Persons Two Eye Purpose Voice Attention Air Ignorance Judging Mouths Blind Lips Appearance Wide Neglect Thick Prominent Disgusted Short Sighted

Book:Horace Walpole: Memoirs and Portraits

Source: Horace Walpole: Memoirs and Portraits

“My characters have nothing. I'm working with impotence, ignorance... that whole zone of being that has always been set aside by artists as something unusable - something by definition incompatible with art.”

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Author:Samuel Beckett

“I had seen faces in photographs I might have found beautiful had I known even vaguely in what beauty was supposed to consist. And my father's face, on his death-bolster, had seemed to hint at some form of aesthetics relevant to man. But the faces of the living, all grimace and flush, can they be described as objects?”

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Book:The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989

Source: The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989

“I still smile it's not worth the trouble any more for a long time now it's not been worth the trouble the tongue spring goes into the mud I stay like this not thirsty any more the tongue goes back into the mouth it closes it has to make a straight line now it's done I've made the image.”

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