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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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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. – Walter Benjamin

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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. – Walter Benjamin

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Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. – Berenice Abbott

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I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help. – Ruth Bernhard

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Photography helps people to see. – Berenice Abbott

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I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do — that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse. – Diane Arbus

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