Sep 28, 2016
A New Nothing, Excerpt from a photo conversation between Ben Alper and Nat Ward, 2016
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A New Nothing, Excerpt from a photo conversation between Ben Alper and Nat Ward, 2016
What would become of philosophy if it did not have the means of questioning appearances? Mirages, sticks that break the moment they are immersed in water and miraculously straighten out when they are withdrawn from their bath, all the tricks that our eye accepts have figured in this memorable and inexhaustible enumeration.
The Centenary of Photography Paul Valery, 1939 Classic Essays on Photography, Ed. Alan Trachtenberg