Photography Is A Kind Of Overstatement, A

It's Almost As If This Is The Fundamental Procedure In Modern Society: Duplication And Recycling.

Photographs Are A Way Of Imprisoning Reality, Understood As Recalcitrant, Inaccessible; Of Making It Stand Still. One Can't Possess Reality, One Can Possess (and Be Possessed By) Images — As, According To Proust, Most Ambitious Of Voluntary Prisoners, One Can't Possess The Present But One Can Possessthe Past.

Courage Is Morally Neutral.

Life Is Not Significant Details, Illuminated By A Flash, Fixed Forever. Photographs Are.

Everyone Who Lives In An Industrialized Society Is Obliged Gradually To Give Up The Past, But In Certain Countries, Such As The United States And Japan, The Break With The Past Has Been Particularly Traumatic.