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“There has been great excitement at the prospect that this atomic bomb or atomic energy is likely to produce great industrial energy very quickly, I do not believe it at all.”

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Ernest Bevin

British statesman who served as Foreign Secretary, known for his diplomatic policies during World War II. more

“One view of photography is that it is a zen-like act which captures reality with its pants down - so that the vital click shows the anatomy bare. In this, the photographer is invisible but essential. A computer releasing the shutter would always miss the special moment that the human sensibility can register. For this work, the photographer's instinct is his aid, his personality a hindrance.”

“The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness.”

Rocks Century Color Delicate Pale Wardrobe 18th Century Underwater

Author:William Manchester

“This is a photograph, so it is as you see: there are no lies and no deceptions. One can detect here, elevated to an incomparably higher level, the same pathetic emotional appeal that lies concealed in every fake spiritualist photograph, every pornographic photograph; one comes to suspect that the strange, disturbing emotional appeal of the photographic art consists solely in that same repeated refrain: this is a true ghost... this is a photograph, so it is as you see: there are no lies, no deceptions.”

Art Lying Levels Emotional Strange Higher Photograph Ghost Appeals Deception Fake Suspects Disturbing Pathetic Concealed Refrain Higher Level Emotional Appeal

Author:Yukio Mishima

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