It's easy to play fun forms, surfaces, and languages against each other. Teenagers do this every day, producing … - Torbjørn Rødland

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The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.

Torbjørn Rødland

It's easy to play fun forms, surfaces, and languages against each other. Teenagers do this every day, producing winning memes from random patterns. I need the joke to hurt more; I want it to sink deeper than the postmodern grin.

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Making photographs can be a way for me to bring something up and into consciousness, something either shared or individual.

Consciousness, Individual, Making, Photograph, Shared, Way

I'd like the photographs to potentially be meaningful to a wide range of people. They do not grow out of the reportage mode, this was always clear to me. Personal imaginations blend into each other and create our visual cultures. No one is a neutral observer of this field.

Imagination, Meaningful, Observer, People, Photographs, Potentially

Initially I borrowed the word "perverse" for my works from Roland Barthes, meaning pleasure-driven and not geared to inform or promote a service or a product.

Geared, Initially, Meaning, Promote, Roland, Word

I am fascinated by how images and motifs move between and adjust to different cultures. I'm a Norwegian living in Los Angeles showing a photograph inspired by Japanese image culture in an American beach town named after a sinking city in Italy.

Beach, Different, Fascinated, Image, Italy, Moving

Tactility was rejected in conceptual photography. I embrace the possibilities of my medium. Surface, texture, and tactility is something analog photography can do well, or it is something I can do well in analog photography. It can be hard to know what or who is in control.

Conceptual, Embrace, Photography, Possibility, Rejected, Surface

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I think there's a general confusion that my work is about types of photography. But really that's just a tool to introduce some questions I have about seeing. What happens when all of these conditions and structures and histories and cultures and tools you have around you begin to fail? On the one hand there is an engagement with histories and cultures, and on the other, there is this very lonesome space of actually coming to terms with seeing.

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Adolf Hitler

[Propaganda] must be aimed at the emotions and only to a very limited degree at the so-called intellect. . . The art of propaganda lies in understanding the emotional ideas of the great masses and finding, through a psychologically correct form, the way to the attention and thence to the heart of the broad masses.

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Ezra Taft Benson

The Book of Mormon is the 'keystone' of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the 'capstone,' with continuing latter day revelation. The Lord has placed His stamp of approval on both the keystone and the capstone.

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Justus von Liebig

The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.

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We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

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