Dec 18, 2025
Mana Sama Gackt and Kozi
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Mana Sama Gackt and Kozi
I have said that a photograph bears witness to a human choice being exercised. This choice is not between photographing X and Y; but between photographing at X moment or at Y moment. The objects recorded in any photograph (from the most effective to the most commonplace) carry approximately the same weight, the same conviction. What varies is the intensity with which we are made aware of the poles of absence and presence. Between these two poles photography finds its proper meaning. (The most popular use of the photograph is as a memento of the absent.)
John Berger, “Understanding a Photograph” (1968), collected in Understanding a Photograph (2013)
“The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.” ― Ezra Pound
Painting: "Moonlight on the Sea" by Albert Pinkham Ryder
Created by Jean-François Ansion
Chances and artistic creation by Fayga Ostrower
Summer dresses at winter because why not