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“In my view, photography and painting really share one history. The influences that work on one, work on the other.”

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Jack Welpott, born in an unknown location in 1923, was a historical figure with an unspecified profession. His life story and achievements are currently limited in available information. Jack Welpott passed away on November 24, 2007. more

“The lover of photography is fascinated both by the instant and by the past. The moment captured in the image is of near-zero duration and is located in a ever-receding then. At the same time, the spectator's now, the moment of looking at the image, has no fixed duration. It can be extended as long as fascination lasts and endlessly reiterated as long as curiosity returns.”

Long Moments Lasts Past Return Lovers Photography Curiosity Fixed Instant Zero Fascinated Spectators Fascination Captured Duration

Author:Peter Wollen

“For photography to be an art involves reformulating notions of art, rejecting both material and formal purism and also the separation of art from commerce as distinct semiotic practices that never interlock.”

Art Practice Materials Photography Notion Separation Commerce Formal Rejecting Semiotics

Book:Readings and writings: semiotic counter-strategies

Source: Readings and writings: semiotic counter-strategies

“Things looked funny because my pictures depend on an emotional state... I know this is true and I thought about this for a long time. Somehow it made me feel very, very good.”

Knows Feels Long Made States Emotional Depends Long Time Very Good

Author:Francesca Woodman

“A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc.”

People Term Records Objects Photography Size Etc Wardrobe

Author:Francesca Woodman

“Now we come to the passage. You can just see a little peep of the passage in Looking-glass House, if you leave the door of our drawing room wide open: and it's very like our passage as far as you can see, only you know it may be quite different on beyond.”

Ifs Knows May Littles Different House Rooms Doors Glasses Wide Drawing Passages Glass Houses

Author:Francesca Woodman

“A little learning is a dangerous thing. I must say that Rush Limbaugh is increasingly becoming a warning to kids of the perils of dropping out of school.”

Littles Kids School Dangerous Becoming Warning Peril Dropping Dangerous Things Dropping Out Dropping Out Of School

Author:Arianna Huffington

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