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He is sensitive to the moment and capable of transferring it.
[Circled words to right: transfusing, transhumanizing]
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With the present mobility of the 35mm camera and fast film, photographers work constantly with the freezing of moments in time, and a very speeded up time it is, reflecting our present technology. Capturing of chance relationships and contrasts, fleeting movements, etc., on film has become an ordinary affair.
Yet even in 1912 with a view camera and slow film that needed a relatively long exposure, the photographer is dealing with things that happened in time. And it was still then as now, the intutive response of the photographer to a subject at a particular instant, within a particular frame that makes the difference.
"The relationship between art and life is either so obvious that nothing need be said or so complicated that nothing can be said. All art is a transplant of one's personal experience anyway. What you do with it is what matters.
What seems to be happening is this appalling thing
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