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In the final analysis, photography... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun.

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In the final analysis, photography... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun.

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As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.

Abigail Solomon-Godeau

Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode.

Abigail Solomon-Godeau

... photography, like all camera-made images such as film and video, effaces the marks of its making (and maker) at the click of a shutter. A photograph appears to be self-generated - as though it had created itself.

Abigail Solomon-Godeau

While the aesthetics of consumption (photographic or otherwise) requires a heroicized myth of the artist, the exemplary practice of the player-off codes requires only an operator, a producer, a scriptor, or a pasticheur.

Abigail Solomon-Godeau

When I talk to some of the younger filmmakers, they are so worried about their films that, eventually, this state of being worried reflects itself in and helps the final work. Whereas, with projects that are meticulously planned, you look at the end result and it is full of emptiness.

Abbas Kiarostami Film Director

All the men and women whom I have faced at that final moment, convince me that in what I have done, I have not prevented a single murder.

Albert Pierrepoint Executioner

My first cut is always pretty similar to the final cut.

Alejandro Amenabar Composer

The final act of business judgment is intuitive.

Alfred P. Sloan Author

In fact, as far as one can tell, Obama seems to have killed more civilians during his first year than Bush did in his first year, and maybe even than Bush killed in his final year.

Allan Nairn Journalist

The really amazing part, to me, was when Florida made it into the Final Four, the Democrats didn't demand a recount.

Ann Coulter Commentator

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