Photography and the Technological Sublime   8

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.

—Max Frisch

You take risks. You search. Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. A new fact has recently become clear to me: It is not variety that is the spice of life. Variety is the meat and potatoes. Risk is the spice of life. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand this.

—David Brower

In his book The Desert, John C. Van Dyke describes lying awake in the desert at night, looking into the sky, wondering, “What is it that draws us to the boundless and the fathomless? Why should the lovely things of earth—the grasses, the trees, the lakes, the little ...

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