Photo Essay - Cassie Refling
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“A photograph is not an opinion.
Or is it?”
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“Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.”
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“Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.”
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“Mallarme said that everything exists in order to end in a book. Today
everything exists to end in a photograph.”
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“Still there is something predatory in the act of taking a picture.”
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“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.”
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“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”
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“The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is
one of our most important purposes.”
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“It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing
as a bad photograph – only less interesting, less relevant, less
mysterious ones.”
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“To photograph is to confer importance.”
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“Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever.
Photographs are.”
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“It is not the position, but the disposition.”
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“Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is
valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.”
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“The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually, in one’s own.”
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Credits
The final picture was a self portrait. All other photographs are by Cassie Refling.
All quotes are from Susan Sontag.
Sontag, Susan. On Photography. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977.