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“The greatest field of photography, for the literary interpretation of life, consists, to my mind, in its latent power to create, as it were, death for a single second. Any thing or person is, at will, made to die for a moment of time so immeasurably small that the return to life is effected without consciousness of the great adventure. (1928)”

Mind Persons Made Moments Life Is Dies Consciousness Fields Adventure Return Photography Interpretation Latent Great Adventure

Author:Pierre Mac Orlan

“What is important is that our optical awareness rids itself of classical notions of beauty and opens itself more and more to the beauty of the instant and of these surprising points of view that appear for a brief moment and never return; those are what make photography an art.”

Art Important Moments Views Awareness Return Photography Notion Point Of View Instant Surprising Brief Moments

Author:Raoul Hausmann

“The lover of photography is fascinated both by the instant and by the past. The moment captured in the image is of near-zero duration and is located in a ever-receding then. At the same time, the spectator's now, the moment of looking at the image, has no fixed duration. It can be extended as long as fascination lasts and endlessly reiterated as long as curiosity returns.”

Long Moments Lasts Past Return Lovers Photography Curiosity Fixed Instant Zero Fascinated Spectators Fascination Captured Duration

Author:Peter Wollen

“I prefer to think of photography as a never ending journey with infinite possibilities. I love to return to places to re photograph. Nothing is ever the same. The options are endless.”

Thinking Journey Possibility Return Photography Infinite Photograph Endless Never Ending Infinite Possibilities

Author:Michael Kenna

“There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me.”

I Can Moments Strong Records Return Photography Remove Weary Fugue

Author:Edward Weston

“The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every father and mother. To many a mother the photograph of her boy in his country's uniform was the one never-failing consolation.”

Real Country Might Mother Values Father Boys Failing Possibility Taught Return Photography Photograph Uniforms Consolation Departure Real Value

Author:Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr.

“Some speak of a return to nature, I wonder where they could have been?”

Has Beens Speak Wonder Return Photography Photographer Could Have Been

Book:Venus, Jupiter & Mars: the photographs of Frederick Sommer : an exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum from April 27 through June 8, 1980

Source: Venus, Jupiter & Mars: the photographs of Frederick Sommer : an exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum from April 27 through June 8, 1980