On the Way Out | Deconstructionism Main Street square Left over lunch |
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he position and contingencies of human experience necessarily reduce knowledge to the local and specific. A claim of an ultimate truth which must be accepted or obeyed by all doesn't jive with this empirical understanding. Much can be deduced in a local café, even if the food isn't very good.
“Look at the things around you, the immediate world around you. If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and if you care enough about photography, and if you know how to use it, you will want to photograph that meaningness. If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.” - Paul Strand
