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“The women who intrigued me [as models] had the most beautiful necks and the most responsive hand movements. At one point, I found El Greco, and that elongated look became my way of seeing.”

Quote by Lillian Bassman

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Lillian Bassman

Lillian Bassman, an influential American photographer, was born on June 15, 1917, and passed away on February 13, 2012. She is renowned for her unique photographic style and contributions to fashion photography. more

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“Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of my painting background.”

Way Long Certain Position Painting Fingers Backgrounds Necks Working It Fabric Thrust

Author:Lillian Bassman

“It seems impossible, in fact, to judge the eye using any word other than seductive, since nothing is more attractive in the bodies of animals and men. But extreme seductiveness is probably at the boundary of horror.”

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Book:Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927-1939

Source: Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927-1939

“Everyone concedes that photography is now a medium of exchange as much as a mode of documentation.... photographing has become the visual equivalent of cellphone chatter.”

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Author:Geoffrey Batchen

“The main difference seems to be that, whereas photography still claims some sort of objectivity, digital imaging is an overtly fictional process. As a practice that is known to be capable of nothing but fabrication, digitization abandons even the rhetoric of truth that has been such an important part of photography's cultural success.”

Has Beens Stills Important Seems Process Differences Known Practice Photography Capable Claims Digital Abandon Rhetoric Objectivity Fabrication Imaging

Book:Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History

Source: Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History

“All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world. This is almost a perceptual necessity; in order to see what the photograph is of, we must first repress our consciousness of what the photograph is.”

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Author:Geoffrey Batchen

“[A digital snapshot] is meant primarily as a means of communication, and the images being sent are almost as ephemeral as speech, so rarely are they printed and made physical.”

Mean Made Communication Speech Digital Printed Ephemeral Snapshots Means Of Communication

Author:Geoffrey Batchen

“Human experience comes suspended in the sickly-sweet amniotic fluid of commercial photography. And a world normally animated by abrasive differences is blithely reduced to a single, homogeneous National Geographic way of seeing.”

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Author:Geoffrey Batchen

“Over the past two decades, the boundary between photography and other media like painting, sculpture, or performance has become increasingly porous. It would seem that each medium has absorbed the other, leaving the photographic residing everywhere, but nowhere in particular.”

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Book:Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History

Source: Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History

“Most importantly, postmodernism comes down on the side of photography and power, not photography as power. As a consequence, photography continues to be conceived as an inconsequential vehicle or passage for real powers that always originate elsewhere.”

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Author:Geoffrey Batchen

“The picture is the imitation and converted reality of the goods, in short, an indirect substitute for reality.”

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Author:Herbert Bayer