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“I like the obvious statement, although some people might wish to think they aren't there, that they will go away with time.”

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Ralph Eugene Meatyard

Ralph Eugene Meatyard was an American photographer known for his surrealistic style of photography. His works often explore themes of human existence and profound insights into the relationship between nature and humanity. more

“[My work] includes something about death, and about love, because the photos always have something to do with death. The photograph is like taxidermy. It is like the animals I use. They are posed in order to appear to be alive, but they are dead. Their time has passed. The photos have to do with time and loss, and conclusion.”

Use Order Loss Love Is Animal Alive Photograph Conclusion Taxidermy

Author:Annette Messager

“Mostly, I believe an artist doesn't create something, but is there to sort through, to show, to point out what already exists, to put it into form and sometimes reformulate it.... I didn't invent anything, I indicated.”

Believe Sometimes Shows Form Artist I Believe

Author:Annette Messager

“The person who has been photographed, not the total person, is dead, dead for having been seen.”

Persons Has Beens

Author:Christian Metz

“The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of the word.”

People Order Ordinary Photograph Familiar Fetish

Author:Christian Metz

“Photography is linked with death in many different ways. The most immediate and explicit is the social practice of keeping photographs in memory of loved beings who are no longer alive. But there is another real death which each of us undergoes every day, as each day we draw nearer to our own death. Even when the person photographed is still living, that moment when she or he was has forever vanished.”

Way Persons Stills Different Real Moments Social Memories Practice Forever Alive Photography Draws Photograph Different Ways Each Day That Moment Linked Explicit

Author:Christian Metz

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