"I see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence."

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Susan Meiselas

#Encounters Quotes #Tradition Quotes #Photograph Quotes

“We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.”
“(The terms douloi, banausoi and aristoi) are in a way more precise, but what is more vital and valuable, they are more comprehensive: they project a concept of psychic order that embraces entire fields that we have no other way of seeing all together as the working of a single principle. If we think of the human domain as the collaboration and the conflict of these three diverse character-types, we can understand the weave and the stress and polemics of their very different basal teleologies or ultimate governing purposes of life.”
“She wouldn't come back. She hated me. She hated Nan. She hated my mom. She hated her father. She wouldn't come back here... but God, I wanted her to.”
“Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.”
“Dream it. Dare it. Do it.”
“Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.”
“I love jeans, T-shirts, boots, and tennis shoes.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!”

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