I think I've got a peculiar disease. I call it the curse of history, and it has to do with the fugitive absence/presence of both personal and collective memory. At first I thought it was a kind of personal illness, just related to time, private time, time that passes in one's life. So I decided to forget and throw myself into the future.
I'm proposing to you that photography is a language on its own, which is that when you look at images you do derive ideas; and I'm also proposing to … - Gilles Peress
I'm proposing to you that photography is a language on its own, which is that when you look at images you do derive ideas; and I'm also proposing to …
- Gilles Peress
I think I've got a peculiar disease. I call it the curse of history, and it has to do with the fugitive absence/presence of both personal and collect… - Gilles Peress
I think I've got a peculiar disease. I call it the curse of history, and it has to do with the fugitive absence/presence of both personal and collect…
I don't trust words. I trust pictures. - Gilles Peress
I don't trust words. I trust pictures.
I am bad at memory - this is why I shoot pictures. - Gilles Peress
I am bad at memory - this is why I shoot pictures.
Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality. - Gilles Peress
Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality.
We are entering into an age in which visual language is defined by a dialogue between photographers and audiences. This means not just the democratic… - Gilles Peress
We are entering into an age in which visual language is defined by a dialogue between photographers and audiences. This means not just the democratic…
I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history. - Gilles Peress
I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.
[The photograph is] still a space to reorganize our thoughts about reality and our place in the world. How do you disentangle the surface of reality? - Gilles Peress
[The photograph is] still a space to reorganize our thoughts about reality and our place in the world. How do you disentangle the surface of reality?
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