What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
John Berger
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- That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
- Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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- The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.