Art is inextricably tied to man's survival - not to his physical survival, but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and survival of his consciousness.
Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man__ face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building__nd then they move on. Whereas in all the other art forms, take William Blake, everything that came to that paper never existed before. It__ the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing.
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Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man__ face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building__nd then they move on. Whereas in all the other art forms, take William Blake, everything that came to that paper never existed before. It__ the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing.
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