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There is indeed something omnivorous about the act of photography. It offers a way of responding to everything about everything.


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Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we'd probably learn twice as much.



Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or ‘dematerialized’

Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or ‘dematerialized’



Why are we still afraid of being other than men? Women are still in hiding.

Why are we still afraid of being other than men? Women are still in hiding.



A piece of paper or a photograph is as much an object, or as 'material' as a ton of lead.

A piece of paper or a photograph is as much an object, or as 'material' as a ton of lead.



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Men have dominated the field of landscape photography just as they have dominated the land itself. Thus shooting a virgin landscape has been man's work - hunting, not gardening.



The camera was another weapon in the wars of domination.

The camera was another weapon in the wars of domination.



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Photographers find themselves directly in competition with mass media's misrepresentations of women. So the photographic terrain is particularly contested from a political point of view.





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I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends.



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Subjective time flows forward, the phenomenal self is embedded into this flow, an inner history unfolds. That it is why it is not a bubble, but a tunnel: There is movement in time.




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