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“I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death.”

Quote by Manuel Alvarez Bravo

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Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Manuel Alvarez Bravo, born on February 4, 1902, and died on October 19, 2002, was a prominent Mexican artist. His works spanned various mediums including photography, painting, and sculpture, and he is known for his unique visual style and profound insights into social reality. more

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“Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico. The art called popular is fugitive in character, with less of the impersonal and intellectual characteristics of the schools. It is the work of talent nourished by personal experience and that of the community - rather than being taken from the experiences of painters in other times and other cultures.”

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Book:Manuel Álvarez Bravo

Source: Manuel Álvarez Bravo

“I think that a visual artist's philosophy develops much more freely than a writer's or a thinker's philosophy. It is not so disciplined. The photographer works with both his eyes and his mind.”

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Author:Manuel Alvarez Bravo

“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

“Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.”

Inspirational Problem Growth

Author:Richard Bach

“You see in the photograph what you are.”

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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Author:Peter C Bunnell

“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.”

Kind Form Belief Difficult Issues Subjects Photography Photograph Integration Vicarious

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.”

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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

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“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.”

May Mean Opposites Photograph Bias Hints Implied Double Meaning

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

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