"As soon as you open your mouth, you are wrong"
Mo Tzu
"Photographs are not hand-made, they are manufactured. And what is manufactured is an image of the world. The inescapable fact of mechanism or automatism in the making of these images is the [satisfying] feature....
At some point the unhinging of our consciousness from the world interposed our subjectivity between us and our presentness to the world. Then our subjectivity became what is present to us, individuality became isolation....
Photography maintains the presentness of the world by accepting our absence from it. The reality in a photograph is present to me while I am not present to it."
Stanley Cavell, The World Viewed (pg 20-23)
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