I once killed a man for snoring too loudly.
Artists are interested in pictures as sources of ideas for their work. Where the pictures come from and how they are made is of little concern to them.
As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of art, not simply the history of photography, who have shaped important directions for the future.
. . . throughout the history of art it has been art itself - in all its forms - that has inspired art. . . today's photographs are so geared to life that one can learn more from them than from life itself.
I wondered – would a bullet through my temple actually kill me or just leave a really big mess for me to clean up?
Tired, but not the kind of tired that sleep fixes.
We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.
The bureaucratic method of building an integrated Europe has exhausted its potential.