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Quote by Walter Benjamin
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanaly

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. – Walter Benjamin

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Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information — hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations. – Walter Benjamin

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The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. – Henri Cartier Bresson

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Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be. – Duane Michals

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