“So far as photography satisfied a wish, it satisfied a wish not confined to painters, but a human wish, intensifying since the Reformation, to escape subjectivity and metaphysical isolation - a wish for power to reach this world, having for so long tried, at last hopelessly, to manifest fidelity to another... Photography overcame subjectivity in a way undreamed of by painting, one which does not so much defeat the act of painting as escape it altogether: by automatism, by removing the human agent from the act of reproduction.”
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Stanley Cavell
Stanley Cavell, born on September 1, 1926, is a renowned philosopher from the United States. His research focuses on moral philosophy, film philosophy, and literary theory, particularly known for his in-depth exploration of the relationship between film and philosophy. more
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