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| stranger in my town |
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| branded pencil holder |
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| custody |
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| "oversimplify" |
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| die hanging |
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| deconstructive |
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| shadowy mannequin |
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| escapist |
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| end up with thinking of...... thesis writing design :D |
I took many photographs this afternoon, as the time flies, a wasted life, haha. I actually took a break after a long trip (blah) to take my super dad around the city because of a mighty good news in the morning, had late breakfast at my favorite meatball's stall (Cak Seger, Jalan Pirngadi). The super delicious, slurpy, tasty, and 'cing cing ping' meatball that we've been eating every weekend since I was like in elementary school, but not so often visiting lately. Later, reading a book while surfing on the internet, craving for some songs.
I'm a slowly reader, therefore it needs four years to spend a very lightweight book, and seven years to spend the heavy one, pffft... Actually I have to return this book by Susan Sontag, On Photography on 4/11 to c2o library, but then I haven't finished yet. She's enlighten me about photography, yeah (very cliché comment, hakhak) because sometimes when I read a book in English, I really wonder about Indonesian making those brilliant statements or ideas. I'm not good in writing an introduction, so here we go some quotes I collect from the book. I suggest this book to any one who are interested in photography, a must read! Because we can see photography from some different perspectives! :"> PS: I won't quote it using Harvard Style, mehehe..
"To take a picture is to have an interest in things as they are, in the status quo remaining unchanged (at least for as long as it takes to take a 'good picture', to be complicitly with whatever makes a subject interesting, worth photographing- including when that is the interest, another person's pain or misfortune" (p.12)
"In photography's early decades, photographs were expected to be idealized images. This is still the aim of most amateur photographers, for whom a beautiful photograph is a photograph of something beautiful, like a woman, a sunset" (p.28)
"One of perennial successes of photography has been its strategy of turning living beings into things, things into living beings" (Luns Jr, William on Sontag p.98)
I also take some quotations at the end of chapter, a brief anthology of quotations.
"......When you are the camera and the camera is you" - A Minolta SLR ads (1976)
"......The creative photographer sets free the human contents of objects; and imparts humanity to the inhuman world around him" - Clarence John Laughlin
"An object that tells of the loss, destruction, disappearance of objects. Does not speak of itself, Tells of others. Will it include them?"- Jasper Johns
"The camera is a fluid way of encountering that other reality" -Jerry N. Uelsmann
"Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good" - Wallace Stevens
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