Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has … - Peter Schjeldahl

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Last year we had so many people coming in and out they didn't bother to sew their names on the backs of the uniforms. They just put them there with Velcro.

Peter Schjeldahl

Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and critical prerogatives of older, slower literature and handmade visual art.

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