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Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.


Jerzy Kosinski


#body #his #hold #humanity #i

To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else. That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual of its own pace more than other places that have to keep up with the progress.


Allen Toussaint


#anywhere #being #else #geographical #get

On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.


Eberhard Weber


#because #biographies #closer #conduct #conductors

People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.


Weegee


#capture #film #moment #only #people

Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.


Edmund White


#biography #forms #great #judgment #little

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.


A. N. Wilson


#angel #another #arrogant #bank #believe

In Denmark lots of people come up to me for autographs.


Caroline Wozniacki


#come #denmark #lots #me #people

Photography is an itch that wont go away. No matter how much you scratch it.


Dara McGrath


#photography #art

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.


Thomas Wilson


#arts #collage #dilettante #i #photography

The decline of geography in academia is easy to understand: we live in an age of ever-increasing specialization, and geography is a generalist's discipline. Imagine the poor geographer trying to explain to someone at a campus cocktail party (or even to an unsympathetic adminitrator) exactly what it is he or she studies. "Geography is Greek for 'writing about the earth.' We study the Earth." "Right, like geologists." "Well, yes, but we're interested in the whole world, not just the rocky bits. Geographers also study oceans, lakes, the water cycle..." "So, it's like oceanography or hydrology." "And the atmosphere." "Meteorology, climatology..." "It's broader than just physical geography. We're also interested in how humans relate to their planet." "How is that different from ecology or environmental science?" "Well, it encompasses them. Aspects of them. But we also study the social and economic and cultural and geopolitical sides of--" "Sociology, economics, cultural studies, poli sci." "Some geographers specialize in different world regions." "Ah, right, we have Asian and African and Latin American studies programs here. But I didn't know they were part of the geography department." "They're not." (Long pause.) "So, uh, what is it that do study then?


Ken Jennings


#geography #geology #political-science #politics #sociology






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