10 Taking (Back) My Time
If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein
My relationship with photography began, as affairs of the heart often do, with mindless lust. I wanted to play with beautiful machines, to see spectacular things, and to make the kind of tantalizing photographs I saw in glossy magazines and coffee-table books. In time, lust blossomed into love—a committed kinship, founded in intimate familiarity, implicit acceptance, and mutual respect. Short-lived infatuations don’t produce the same depth of mutual appreciation as love, which must ...
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