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“It seems to me that before the photograph can exist as art it must, by its very nature choose whether it is to be a record or a testimony.”

Quote by Yukio Mishima

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Yukio Mishima was a Japanese author and playwright, a prominent figure in post-war Japanese literature. His works, characterized by a fusion of traditional Japanese aesthetics and modernist techniques, often explored themes of tradition, ritual, and the samurai code. more

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