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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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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon. – John Berger

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Travel
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John Berger
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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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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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A photograph is usually looked at — seldom looked into. – 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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While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. – Dorothea Lange

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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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