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“A kind of golden hour one remembers for a life time... Everything was touched with magic.”

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Margaret Bourke-White was an American photographer known for her distinctive style and for documenting significant historical events. Her work spanned across various fields, including news, advertising, and art photography. more

“I don't know whether we think in moving images or whether we think in still images. I have a suspicion that on our hard drive, our series within our brains, [exist] still photographs of very important moments in our lives. ... That we think in terms of still images and that what the photography is doing is making direct contact with the human hard drive and recording for all time a sense of what happened.”

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Author:Jon Snow

“To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like power.”

World Feels Mean Certain Photography Relation Photograph Oneself Appropriate

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.”

Persons Turns Events Photography Photograph Possessed

Book:Regarding the Pain of Others

Source: Regarding the Pain of Others

“Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an art form at all. Like language, it is a medium in which works of art (among other things) are made.”

Giving Art Made Form Lying Language Pleasure Photography Mediums Works Of Art Aesthetic Subjectivity

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

Quote by Margaret Bourke-White

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