We suffer more in imagination than in reality. – Seneca There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. – Shakespeare, Hamlet Distraction is the only thing that consoles us from miseries yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries. – Pascal
‘Photographs that look like photographs taken by someone else’ an ongoing series somewhat dependant on my competency as a plagiarist. One: William Eggleston by Rickster. Submissions gratefully received.
The view from the train window is like a cross between the view from a window at home and the view from a car. It is like being at home in that you are not obliged to look out of the window as you are when driving or being driven. On a train you are not confronted with the view; it is an option. You can, if you prefer, spend the journey reading, looking up from time to time – […]
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. – Dorothea Lange
Make picture of kaleidoscope. —William H. Fox Talbot (ms. note dated February 18, 1839)
Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t see. —Emmet Gowin