"How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs?"

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Source : Allan Sekula, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh (2002). “Fish story”

Allan Sekula

#Photography Quotes #Memories Quotes #Historical Quotes

“If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.”
“The movie, 'Remember the Titans,' is my favorite movie, staring Denzel Washington. I love the way in this movie the game of football brings those boys together, it unites those boys on that football field. It unites a whole town, black, white, old, young, rich and poor.”
“When you're young everything feels like the end of the world, but its not; its just the beginning.”
“People's opinions don't interfere with me.”
“A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.”
“The voice of an Angel, the Heart of a Lamb, the spirit of a Lioness, the presence of a Goddess, love you R.I.P Whitney Houston.”
“Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as "miracles." But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things ... subservient to the rule of law.”

Source : Elisha Gray (1899). “Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science”
“If you have a friend that will reprove your faults and foibles, consider you enjoy a blessing which the king upon the throne cannot have.”

Source : James Burgh (1794). “The Dignity of Human Nature; or, a Brief account of the certain and established means for attaining the true end of our existence ... By J. B. (James Burgh.)”, p.31

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