“Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.” WaitingLossReadyExpressionShameGuiltConfusionInnocence Book:The Works of Mr. Congreve in Two Volumes Source: The Works of Mr. Congreve in Two Volumes
“... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it! It transforms into desperadoes the weakest of men; depicts sinless innocence upon the pictured faces of ruffians; gives the wise man the stupid leer of a fool, and the fool an expression of more than earthly wisdom.” MenGivingFacesWiseStupidExpressionFoolPhotographHungerInnocenceThirstOutlawWretchednessHunger And ThirstRuffian Author:Mark Twain
“Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of carelessness, innocence and unity. But the imaginary kingdom is nothing more than a projection of adult ideas and concerns onto the image, an expression of our own yearnings. By photographing children alone, divorced from any social setting, I allow them to exist on their own...I am exploring the equivocal connection between self and world.” WorldChildrenHas BeensIdeasSelfLostSocialChildhoodThis WorldExpressionReturnAdultsConcernGardenConnectionsUnitySettingKingdomsSettingsInnocenceParadiseYearningImaginaryExploringDivorcedProjectionExcludedCarelessness Author:Loretta Lux
“I think what you have inside reflects very much in your face, in your expression. If you can find a kind of equilibrium in life, you never really get old, because you have that kind of ingenuity and innocence inside that gives you that brightness and that glint in your eye that generally, getting older, you lose.” IfsThinkingGivingKindEyeFacesLosesExpressionInnocenceYour FaceGetting OldGetting OlderIngenuityEquilibriumBrightness Author:Sophia Loren
“So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a shared dream of what a city might at its best prove to be – its inhabitants became, and have remained, an embittered and amnesiac race, wounded but unable to connect through memory to the moment of injury, unable to summon the face of their violator.” MomentsDreamMightFacesPoliticalMemoriesLossRaceCitiesParticularExpressionMaterialsProveInnocenceInjuryWoundedLoss Of Innocence Book:Against the Day Source: Against the Day