Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense they are creators of sensibilities.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.Susan Sontag
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Taste has no system and no proofs.
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Of course the movies are going to be the more visible, more high profile, for the simple reason that a lot more money is involved and this is a largely money-oriented society. ... Nevertheless, this is a very good book town, whether it's known to be that or not, and that's why you have something like this.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel.
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