"In spite of recent trends towards fabricating photographic narratives, I find, more than ever, traditional photographic capture, the 'discovery' of found narratives, deeply compelling."

-- Richard Misrach

#Photography Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Trends Quotes

“I do love Christmas, although my wife puts me to shame. She is a huge Christmas fan, so we do love us some Christmas in our house.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I have committed to contribute in raising general public awareness, as well as inspiring broad, positive, committed action against illegal trade. It is an on-going and tough fight, but I believe that if we all join our hands, we can conquer!”
“Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.”

Source : Edith Sitwell (2011). “Taken Care Of: An Autobiography”, p.114, A&C Black
“Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you were running from.”

Source : Helen Van Slyke (1988). “Helen Van Slyke, three complete novels”, Random House Value Pub
“If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?”

Source : Interview with Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The Believer Magazine, June 2003.
“Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We arenâ€™t merely objects of desire.”
“True prayer is an awareness of our helpless need and an acknowledgment of divine adequacy.”
“During photography's first decades, exposure times were quite long... So, similar to the drawings produced with the help of a camera obscura, which depicted reality as static and immobile, early photographs represented the world as stable, eternal, unshakable.”

Source : Lev Manovich (2001). “The Language of New Media”, p.168, MIT Press

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