What I think is so extraordinary
about the photograph is that we
have a piece of paper with this
image adhered to it, etched on it,
which interposes itself into
the plane of time that we are
actually in at that moment.
Even if it comes from as far back as 150 years ago, or as recently
as yesterday, or a minute before as a Polaroid color photograph,
suddenly you bring it into your experience.
You look at it, and all around the real world is humming,
buzzing and moving, and yet in this little frame there is
stillness that looks like the world. That connection, that
collision, that interfacing, is one of the most astonishing
things we can experience.
Joel Meyerowitz
(1938- )
American Photographer
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