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Genet disdained bourgeois pretension, as did Walser, who lived an almost Gandhian simplicity.
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Genet often claimed that the happiest years of his life were those spent in the reformatory and in prison: “Prison isn’t prison, it’s escape, it’s freedom. There you can escape the trivial and return to the essential.”
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I am willing to do this as best I can but I will take no responsibility about doing it wrong.”
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Here Malcolm puts her own artful spin on Benjamin’s famous allusion to the camera’s ability “with its devices of slow motion and enlargement” to reveal hidden and unseen truths: “It is through photography that we first discover the existence of [the] optical unconscious, just as we discover the instinctual unconscious through psychoanalysis.”
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Now that photo is all over the internet, completely out of my control.
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“We are all so overwhelmed by culture that it is a relief to see something which is done directly, without any intention of being good or bad, done only because one wants to do it.”
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“visible wretchedness is counterbalanced by a hidden glory.”
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I begin to wonder if it’s not just the modernist paradigm kicking in, that a metadiscourse is always more satisfying: painting about painting, photographs about photography, and writing about writing.
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“The dullest, most inept and inconsequential snapshot, when isolated, framed (on a wall or by the margins of a book), and paid attention to, takes on all the uncanny significance, fascination, and beauty of R. Mutt’s fountain