post modem .. just past the library
What lies beyond the surface? Is there some other layer; dimension?
Photographers are blocked by the camera, to some degree. Some more, some somewhat less. Nevertheless, the first act of photographing is to decide what is eliminated. Every picture has a set of edges.
Are we ever able to get to a plane beyond, without relying upon the viewer?
Film is like a running child. No matter how many times; no matter what you think will happen, it can surpris, maybe delight.
digital is never wild; never unknown.
Digital is an on-time train.
Film is a balloon in the storm.
The poor embrace the military because every other cul-de-sac in their lives breaks their spirit and their dignity. Pick up Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front or James Jones’s From Here to Eternity. Read Henry IV. Turn to the Iliad. The allure of combat is a trap, a ploy, an old, dirty game of deception in which the powerful, who do not go to war, promise a mirage to those who do.
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