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“We have at our disposal modern techniques for seeing everything, apprehending everything, yet we see nothing.”

Quote by Sophie Ristelhueber

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Sophie Ristelhueber

Sophie Ristelhueber, born in 1949, is a German photographer known for her unique perspective on the relationship between nature and humanity. Her works, which often explore the impact of environmental changes on human life, have been widely exhibited internationally and have won numerous awards. more

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“I have these obsessions that I do not completely understand, with the deep mark, with the ruptured surface, with scars and traces, traces that human beings are leaving on the earth. It is not a comment on the environment... it is metaphysical.”

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Book:Details of the world

Source: Details of the world

“My real interest is traveling the world's tormented places and revealing the scars and the traces on the ground. I am dedicated to the earth.”

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“Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.”

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“What prompted me to make these pictures [of bomb-cratered roads] was the impression that the ground was ripped by the shock, that it was swallowing itself.”

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“In fact, the new malleability of the image may eventually lead to a profound undermining of photography's status as an inherently truthful pictorial form... If even a minimal confidence in photography does not survive, it is questionable whether many pictures will have meaning anymore, not only as symbols but as evidence.”

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“The photograph that discovers and uncovers the world is harder to simulate than an image that simply illustrates one's ideas about it.”

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Book:In our own image: the coming revolution in photography : how computer technology is changing our view of the world

Source: In our own image: the coming revolution in photography : how computer technology is changing our view of the world

“We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking at entry points to information and to the world in which the image was made.”

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Author:Fred Ritchin

“I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status as a societal and historical referent needed to be both safeguarded and illuminated....now photojournalism is devolving into yet another medium perceived as intending to shock, titillate, sell, distort.”

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“We have faith in the photograph not only because it works on a physically descriptive level, but in a broader sense because it confirms our sense of omnipresence as well as the validity of the material world.”

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Book:In our own image: the coming revolution in photography : how computer technology is changing our view of the world

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“The decisive moment, the popular Henri Cartier-Bresson approach to photography in which a scene is stopped and depicted at a certain point of high visual drama, is now possible to achieve at any time. One's photographs, years later, may be retroactively rephotographed by repositioning the photographer or the subject of the photograph, or by adding elements that were never there before but now are made to exist concurrently in a newly elastic sense of space and time.”

Source: In our own image: the coming revolution in photography : how computer technology is changing our view of the world