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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
-E. W. Howe
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A Theory Is No More Like A

E. W. Howe
A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. i had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and people with a reality itself, and believed that a photograph of these appearances to be a photograph of it. it is a melancholy truth that i will never be able to photograph it and can only fail. i am a reflection photographing other reflections within a reflection. to photograph reality is to photograph nothing.
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A photograph never grows old. you and i change, people change all through the months and years but a photograph always remains the same. how nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. you see them as you remember them. but as people live on, they change completely. that is why i think a photograph can be kind.
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This is a photograph, so it is as you see: there are no lies and no deceptions. one can detect here, elevated to an incomparably higher level, the same pathetic emotional appeal that lies concealed in every fake spiritualist photograph, every pornographic photograph; one comes to suspect that the strange, disturbing emotional appeal of the photographic art consists solely in that same repeated refrain: this is a true ghost... this is a photograph, so it is as you see: there are no lies, no deceptions.
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The way in which the photograph records experience is also different from the way of language. language makes sense only when it is presented as a sequence of propositions. meaning is distorted when a word or sentence is, as we say, taken out of context; when a reader or listener is deprived of what was said before, and after. but there is no such thing as a photograph taken out of context, for a photograph does not require one. in fact, the point of photography is to isolate images from context, so as to make them visible in a different way.
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Between two fantasy alternatives, that holbein the younger had lived long enough to have painted shakespeare or that a prototype of the camera had been invented early enough to have photographed him, most bardolators would choose the photograph. this is not just because it would presumably show what shakespeare really looked like, for even if the photograph were faded, barely legible, a brownish shadow, we would probably still prefer it to another glorious holbein. having a photograph of shakespeare would be like having a nail from the true cross.
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As far as the surface is concerned - oil on canvas, conventionally applied - my pictures have little to do with the original photograph. they are totally painting (whatever that may mean). on the other hand, they are so like the photograph that the thing that distinguished the photograph from all other pictures remains intact.
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