“Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever.
Photographs are.”
― Susan Sontag, On Photography
“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.”
― Susan Sontag, On Photography
“INVENTING VIVIAN MAIER” by ABIGAIL SOLOMON-GODEAU
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First she was found, as announced in the title of one of the two documentary films about her (Finding Vivian Maier), but now it can be justly said her life now requires posthumous invention...
a very good article about the Maier fenómeno... Who can rightly speak for her now , if not her images?
ah photography, bitching its big lie and mystery, all at the decisive moment and with the right manipulation.
