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| Old House - Courtland AL 12/31/2012 |
What is incidental, banal and commonplace (it could be called the trivial realism of photography) is an important hallmark of most photographs – not only snapshots – compared with, say, paintings or drawings. Another is the special relationship of the photograph to time; the fact that it is a trace of something which has been.- Mette Sandbye, "Photographic Anamnesia: The Past in the Present" in: Symbolic Imprints. Essays on Photography and Visual Culture (1999). (Aarhus Universitetsforlag, Aarhus) pp. 180-201
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