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Paintings invariably sum up; photographs usually do not. photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. and one photograph, unlike one painting, implies that there will be others.
-Susan Sontag
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Paintings Invariably Sum Up; Photographs Usually Do

Susan Sontag
Paintings invariably sum up; photographs usually do not. photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. and one photograph, unlike one painting, implies that there will be others.
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Biography always has fulfiled this role. robinson crusoe is a biography, as is tom jones. you can go through the whole range of the novel, and you will find it is biography. the only difference between one example and the other is that sometimes it's a partial biography and sometimes it's a total biography. clarissa, for example, is a partial biography of clarissa and a partial biography of lovelace. in other words, it doesn't follow lovelace from when he is in the cradle, though it takes him to the grave.
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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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