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quote from Henri Carier Bresson:

I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself and then...

[QUOTE=Chris Jones;517978]Another interesting and very worthwhile approach would be Gilles Deleuze's writing on cinema and theories of the image. I did a seminar on his theories as an undergrad and...

Chris,
Funny you should mention Nietzsche ... I am interested in his philosophy of the "sagasity of the body" ... and the feeling of a breaking down of barriers between the photographer and subject...

enlightening

i know what you mean about most philosophers being dry. but one you may want to try is merleau-ponty. his "primacy of perception" and 'phenomenology of perception" may be right up your alley.

thank you for that suggestion and i will buy that book. i am interested in the non-linear time concept and i think its a natural as photography is indeed a direct footprint, or light tracing of what...

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