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

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The photographic image… is a message without a code. – Roland Barthes

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

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One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus are a style. – Author Unknown

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