"The decisive moment, the popular Henri Cartier-Bresson approach to photography in which a scene is stopped and depicted at a certain point of high visual drama, is now possible to achieve at any time. One's photographs, years later, may be retroactively rephotographed by repositioning the photographer or the subject of the photograph, or by adding elements that were never there before but now are made to exist concurrently in a newly elastic sense of space and time."

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Source : Fred Ritchin (1990). “In our own image: the coming revolution in photography : how computer technology is changing our view of the world”

Fred Ritchin

#Photography Quotes #Drama Quotes #Years Quotes

“I think people who vibrate at the same frequency, vibrate toward each other. They call it - in science - sympathetic vibrations.”
“The best of all was Pele, who is a mixture of Di Stefano, Maradona, Cruyff and Leo Messi.”
“It hurts every day, the absence of someone who was once there.”

Source : Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.216, Penguin
“I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people.”
“I walk around the world like a ghost, and sometimes I question whether I even exist. Whether I've ever existed at all.”
“We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.”

Source : Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.180
“As the young leaders of tomorrow, you have the passion and energy and commitment to make a difference. What I'd like to really urge you do is to have a global vision. Go beyond your country; go beyond your national boundaries”
“An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.”

Source : 'How to be an Alien' (1946) p. 44

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