"The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy."

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Source : Beaumont Newhall (1982). “The history of photography: from 1839 to the present”, Bulfinch Press

Beaumont Newhall

#Photography Quotes #People Quotes #Fundamentals Quotes

“When you're a teenager, a year can be crippling to maneuver through. Some things happen when you're like 13. All of a sudden you go from being this really confident, no-worry little kid to having all these weird insecurities for no reason.”
“This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen.”
“I am not preparing myself or my family for anything but life.”
“When you chop wood, chips fly.”
“Leaf! you are so big! How can you change your color, then just fall! As if there were no such thing as integrity!”
“A society, in the process of moving forward, often appears to be tearing itself apart. Certainly, an age of rapid change, such as ours, produces many paradoxes. But perhaps the most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.”
“If you hand an adult a lump of clay, they're likely to respond by fashioning something representative out of the raw material. For the most part, they'll simply forge an object that signifies something "real" in the world, even if that something is as abstract as an emotion or an energy. A child, on the other hand, will just as often produce something totally without semiotic meaning, a shape or a mass that represents nothing that exists outside of their imagination. Or else, they'll eat it or throw it or ignore it, wholesale.”

Source : "Keith Murray of We Are Scientists: Examining Life with Humor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Scripture has always been a part of my life. My dad was a pastor. My mother was a speaker, writer, and teacher. I memorized Scripture from the time I was little.”

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