Sunday 19 June 2011

The limits of photography

... there are things it is nearly impossible to photograph: the subtle workings of the human heart, the wandering paths desire and fury take, the bonds of love and blood that tie people together, the decisions that tear them apart, the way that the most unprepossessing landscape can become home and thus speak of stories, traditions, gods that strangers cannot decipher from the rocks and streams.

Rebecca Solnit: Rivers of Shadows. Eadweard Muybridge and the technological Wild West

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