Decline Of The Letter, The Rise Of

My Library Is An Archive Of Longings.

Photographers Are Always Imposing

To Photograph Is To Appropriate The Thing Photographed. It Means Putting Oneself Into A Certain Relation To The World That Feels Like Knowledge-and Therefore, Like Power.

To Take A Photograph Is To Participate In Another Person's Mortality, Vulnerability, Mutability. Precisely By Slicing Out This Moment And Freezing It, All Photographs Testify To Time's Relentless Melt.

To Paraphrase Several Sages: Nobody Can Think And Hit Someone At The Same Time.