“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in a person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”
“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in a person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”
Susan Sontag
“Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?”