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Quote by John Berger
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget. – John Berger

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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present. – John Berger

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Criticism
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John Berger
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. – John Berger

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Envy / Jealousy
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature. – John Berger

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Evil
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Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. – Ambrose Bierce

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My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. – Richard Avedon

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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. – Ansel Adams

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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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