After many months of writing, it occured to me that it might be possible to photograph, in the flesh, what I was attempting to capture in words. I bought a Rolleiflex camera and began to take pictures of objects or structures that were used and abused by human hands
However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth. - Wright Morris
However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.
- Wright Morris
The camera eye is the one in the middle of our forehead, combining how we see with what there is to be seen. - Wright Morris
The camera eye is the one in the middle of our forehead, combining how we see with what there is to be seen.
The past is useless. That explains why it is past. - Wright Morris
The past is useless. That explains why it is past.
In the blur of the photograph, time leaves its gleaming, snail-like track. - Wright Morris
In the blur of the photograph, time leaves its gleaming, snail-like track.
After many months of writing, it occured to me that it might be possible to photograph, in the flesh, what I was attempting to capture in words. I bo… - Wright Morris
After many months of writing, it occured to me that it might be possible to photograph, in the flesh, what I was attempting to capture in words. I bo…
When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good. - Wright Morris
When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good.
The man who comes to writing late, but is in essence a writer, may sometimes gain as much as he has lost: his experience of life has given him a subj… - Wright Morris
The man who comes to writing late, but is in essence a writer, may sometimes gain as much as he has lost: his experience of life has given him a subj…
Images proliferate. Am I wrong in being reminded of printing money in a period of wild inflation? Do we know what we are doing? Are we able to evalua… - Wright Morris
Images proliferate. Am I wrong in being reminded of printing money in a period of wild inflation? Do we know what we are doing? Are we able to evalua…
[We] make images to see clearly: then we see clearly what we have made. - Wright Morris
[We] make images to see clearly: then we see clearly what we have made.
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