"Photography has always been capable of manipulation."

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Source : "False witness" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2004.

Joel Sternfeld

#Photography Quotes #Manipulation Quotes #Capable Quotes

“the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.”
“It takes skill to bring something you've imagined into the world: to use words to create believable lives, to select the colors and textures of paint to represent a haystack at sunset, to combine ingredients to make a flavorful dish. Â No one is born with that skill. Â It is developed through exercise, through repitition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. Â And it takes time. . . . If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.”
“I think the experience of feeling isolated, of not fitting in, creates the urge to explore.”
“I love the good old book with glue and binding, I really do, but that is just one way of experiencing text, and suddenly we have so many new ways, including our laptops, our phones, our watches. People in my generation agonize over this. People much younger than me don't agonize at all. They just go ahead and find ways to transform publishing.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Then I repeated these words to my spirits: 'Leave me be; give me peace; and let me do the work of my life. I will never forget you.' Something about that incantation was particularly appealing to me. 'I will never forget you'-- as though one had to address the pride of the spirits, as though one wanted them to feel good about being exorcised.”
“What happened to California will release a spirit that is more demonic than Islam, a spirit of lawlessness and anarchy. And a sexual insanity will be unleashed into the Earth.”

Source : "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.today.com. December 17, 2009.
“Racism is when you have laws set up, systematically put in a way to keep people from advancing, to stop the advancement of a people. Black people have never had the power to enforce racism, and so this is something that white America is going to have to work out themselves. If they decide they want to stop it, curtail it, or to do the right thing... then it will be done, but not until then.”
“In short, we needed to shift our thinking and teaching about values-driven leadership from asking the question "What is the right thing to do?" to asking and answering the question "Once I know what I believe is right, how do I get it done?"”

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