There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplicat...ion and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this--as in other ways--they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings... record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-sca...le authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...Jews ... have been unable to absorb the experience of the Holocaust, have not learned how to transcend the catastrophe. They've... mistakenly thought that to transcend means to forget the past, that to think about the present is to abandon the past. That too is a painful mistake, a grave mistake for Jews in America, because it's kept many of them from universalizing their experience, from joining with others who have experienced oppression--not perhaps an exact duplication of Jewish oppression, but nevertheless oppression.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A photo of someone else's childhood, a garden in another country--world... he had no part in and has no power to imagine: yet the old man who has failed his memory keens over the picture-- 'Them happy days-- gone--gone for ever!'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not on...ly of recombining but of re-creating the given world. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? In...side? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am not a jogger. I'm not a photo opportunity kind of person. I am at an age where I have better sense than to make a fool of mys...elf.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was the girl of the chain letter,... the girl full of talk of coffins and keyholes, the one of the telephone bills, the wrinkled photo and the lost connections....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »