Mediante la fotografÃa y la palabra escrita intento desesperadamente vencer la condición fugaz de mi existencia, atrapar los momentos antes de que se desvanezcan, despejar la confusión de mi pasado.
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Isabel Allende
All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Susan Sontag
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Susan Sontag
Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should? Â
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Henri CartierBresson
The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.
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Susan Meiselas
More Quotes By Lorrie Moore
This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.
They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.
She knew there were only small joys in life--the big ones were too complicated to be joys when you got all through--and once you realized that, it took a lot of the pressure off.
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
I don’t go back and look at my early work, because the last time I did, many years ago, it left me cringing. If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.
