In some cultures, people believe a taking a photograph "steals the soul".
Susan Sontag argued in "Against Interpretation"
that to the contrary, photographic images keep the souls of those we love among us.
This small blog should be ample proof.
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Unknown Model and Photographer. Wet Plate Collodion, circa 1860’s
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Boy selling Coca Cola from roadside stand. Atlanta, 1936.
By Alfred Eisenstaedt
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SPAIN. Valencia, 1933
gelatin silver print, 7 11/16 x 11 1/2 inches
Backlit photo showing the design of the Irving parachute.
Margaret Bourke-White for Life Magazine, 1937.
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Pierre Jahan for Sensations n°1, June 1948
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Max Jacob, chez Picasso, boulevard de Clichy, 1910-1911 -by Pablo Picasso [+]
Dans une maison de Montmartre [le Bateau-Lavoir, rue Ravignan], dont les murs et les plafonds sont faits de planches mal jointes et de vieilles poutres, habitait vers 1905 le dernier théoricien de l’art et le producteur le plus sérieux et le plus important de nouveautés plastiques.
— Max Jacob, Le Roi de Béotie, 1921 (in Max Jacob, Oeuvres, Ed. Gallimard, 2012)photo from rmn
Jaroslav Savka
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