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May 10, 2005
At the wake for my
At the wake for my oldest friend’s father we are sitting around the family computer, watching as my friend displays scans of photos taken by her father 25 odd years ago. His photography was fantastic, with many of the images being so perfectly shot that you could easily imagine them in magazines of the time, advertising idyllic family holidays or the ideal white Christmas.
When we were done she closed each open image in rapid succession, each photo flickering past before concluding with a grey, featureless screen.
“Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.” Walker Evans
Posted by Oliver at May 10, 2005 12:30 PM
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