i read today that photography under the premise of 'humanism' was solely a mask, a band-aid, that tries to conceal the real relationship between 'truth' and 'beauty' in photographs, in photography . . . i.e., it is a beautiful endeavor, there is nothing universal about the 'humanism' of the image or the 'humans' in the image or of the photographer's 'humanitarian' endeavors if/while taking whatever photograph - what is universal is that in the end they are all objects, collectibles, a collectible memory / human as thing to collect, etc....the writer was writing from the 70s. i wish she was alive to write more on the subject.
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