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 Diane Arbus
The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.
Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice.
A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.
One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.
