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Gilles Peress (born December 29, 1946) is a French photographer and a member of Magnum Photos.

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I am bad at memory - this is why I shoot pictures.

Bad, Memories, Memory, Pictures, Shoot

I think I've got a peculiar disease. I call it the curse of history, and it has to do with the fugitive absence
presence of both personal and collective memory. At first I thought it was a kind of personal illness, just related to time, private time, time that passes in one's life. So I decided to forget and throw myself into the future.

Collective Memory, Memories, Memory, Passes, Thinking, Time

I'm proposing to you that photography is a language on its own, which is that when you look at images you do derive ideas; and I'm also proposing to you that you can derive ideas without going through words. So I'm forcing you to really look. And this process of looking, it's like a new set of ideas that are being proposed to you.

Ideas, Like, Looks, Photography, Set

We are entering into an age in which visual language is defined by a dialogue between photographers and audiences. This means not just the democratic posting of images but the democratic interpretation of images.

Age, Entering, Images, Mean, Photographers, Posting

I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.

Care, Evidence, Gathering, History, Photography

I don't trust words. I trust pictures.

Inspirational, Photography, Photographer, Trust, Pictures, Words

Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality.

Disjunction, Language, Photography, Reality, See

[The photograph is] still a space to reorganize our thoughts about reality and our place in the world. How do you disentangle the surface of reality?

Photograph, Reality, Reorganize, Space, World

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Chuck Jones

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Carl Orff

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