"The main difference seems to be that, whereas photography still claims some sort of objectivity, digital imaging is an overtly fictional process. As a practice that is known to be capable of nothing but fabrication, digitization abandons even the rhetoric of truth that has been such an important part of photography's cultural success."

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Source : Geoffrey Batchen (2002). “Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History”, p.134, MIT Press

Geoffrey Batchen

#Photography Quotes #Objectivity Quotes #Practice Quotes

“If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.”

Source : Jim Bouton (1970). “Ball four: my life and hard times throwing the knuckleball in the Big Leagues”, Dell Pub Co
“Guard your light and protect it. Move it forward into the world and be fully confident that if we connect light to light to light, and join the lights together of the one billion young people in our world today, we will be enough to set our whole planet aglow.”
“A woman's flexibility and a man's strength . . . put them together and you'll have a body like mine.”
“But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue ...”
“The problem is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and there is a temporary halting until they are again in working order.”
“Obama made his no-new-taxes pledge over and over again four years ago as he campaigned. Not only has he repeatedly and blatantly violated it, but his policies have relentlessly assaulted poor and middle-income family budgets.”
“Portugal was born in the shadow of the Catholic Church and religion, from the beginning it was the formative element of the soul of the nation and the dominant trait of character of the Portuguese people.”

Source : "Salazar: speeches, notes, reports, theses, articles and interviews, 1909-1955: Anthology" by António de Oliveira Salazar, Editorial Vanguarda, (p. 212), 1955.
“[Calvin Trillin] was very "shoe," which means he was a big jock, a big deal.”

Source : Source: fourtwonine.com

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