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John Berger

01Aug09

“Before the invention of photography what served in its place? The obvious answer would be engravings, drawings, paintings, graphic works of one kind or another. Yet, if one doesn’t look at it from a purely technical point of view, what served the function that photography now serves…was the faculty of memory.”

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