Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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You come to the photograph as an aesthetic object with no context... Then you step in and read the text and then out again to revisit the image in a completely different way. I'm interested in that space between text and image. The piece becomes the negative space between the two.

Taryn Simon's Popular Quotes

Documentary photography is becoming more illustrative as people become more familiar with photography’s limitations and vulnerabilities. Reality has …

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My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.

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The majority of my work is about preparation.

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Archives exist because there's something that can't necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information.

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I want to see everything. I guess the positive version of not seeing or not knowing would be preservation of fantasy.

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Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused... this ambiguity can have severe, even let…

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Photography's history is bound to the mistake, to the accident.

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Photography threatens fantasy.

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Simulations directly relate to the process of and complications in photography. They also overtly create layers of fantasies, myths and interventions…

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