"En cierto modo, se podría decir que todo aquello que vemos, día a día, nos constituye. Lo queramos o no, las imágenes construyen memoria, sensibilidad, mundo."
From: Memories of Myself. Essays by Danny Lyon
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From: Memories of Myself. Essays by Danny Lyon
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Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 2009
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( photo by Nicolas Haggard)
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Well: if photography is a reflection of someones being in the world, then it should be obvious, that during a lifespan this being in the world is an evolving thing, is changing, is going on; it is a process. If you cross a river, jumping from stone to stone to get to the other side, not every stone is the same stable and the same big. But every stone is necessary to making the bridge for you to getting to the other side.
Same in a creative process: sometimes a lot of work has to be done, and lot of sketches, of try-and-error has to be made in order to lead you to the point where you want to go, and where you want to arrive.
Urs Bernard meets Urs bernard
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Lay Flat 01: Remain in Light Magazine
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Excerpt from:
Nonviolence by E. F. Schumacher
http://www.schumachersociety.org/publications/efs_nonviolence.html
You know, something happened three hundred odd years ago in our intellectual and spiritual history associated with the names of Francis Bacon and René Descartes. They suddenly turned round the very principle of Western civilization. The principle of Western civilization was formulated by Thomas Acquinas, who actually himself was quoting Aristotle, namely that the slenderest knowledge of the highest things is more desirable than the most precise knowledge of the lower things. In other words, there was a vertical scale, and René Descartes came along and said that only such knowledge is worth having as can be absolutely precise. The model for this was geometry and mathematics, which automatically confines attention only to the lower things. Only these things can be mathematized. But these mysterious factors like life or consciousness, or, at a human level, self-awareness, the kind of consciousness that recoils upon itself and thereby opens all doors, can never be mathematized. They cannot be known with precision. They can only be known to the extent that we can mobilize inside ourselves the quantities necessary for knowing. So, there can be no question of complete precision, let alone measurement. And this was the great moment when Francis Bacon said that, in the words of Descartes, we shall make ourselves the masters and possessors of nature. "The masters and possessors of nature": this is an entirely new attitude that previously no part of mankind had ever held. Historically, we had looked upon ourselves as, in a sense, creatures. But that we should have even the ambition to become masters and possessors – that is where the real deeply-rooted violence comes from. Descartes already, wanting to be precise, said that animals are machines. Then, of course, it only took 100 years before the next philosopher came along and said human beings are machines. And when these ideas gradually take root in a civilization it doesn't take very long before they are carried into practice. We know we have carried the idea that, after all, animals are only machines. We have carried this into practice with a vengeance. They are machines to produce eggs or machines to produce meat in great animal factories – again, an example of the violent spirit that comes from wrong metaphysical positions.
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Luang Prabang, Laos, 2009
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Well: if photography is a reflection of someones being in the world, then it should be obvious, that during a lifespan this being in the world is an evolving thing, is changing, is going on; it is a process. If you cross a river, jumping from stone to stone to get to the other side, not every stone is the same stable and the same big. But every stone is necessary to making the bridge for you to getting to the other side.
Same in a creative process: sometimes a lot of work has to be done, and lot of sketches, of try-and-error has to be made in order to lead you to the point where you want to go, and where you want to arrive.
Urs Bernard meets Urs bernard
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Lay Flat 01: Remain in Light Magazine
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Excerpt from:
Nonviolence by E. F. Schumacher
http://www.schumachersociety.org/publications/efs_nonviolence.html
You know, something happened three hundred odd years ago in our intellectual and spiritual history associated with the names of Francis Bacon and René Descartes. They suddenly turned round the very principle of Western civilization. The principle of Western civilization was formulated by Thomas Acquinas, who actually himself was quoting Aristotle, namely that the slenderest knowledge of the highest things is more desirable than the most precise knowledge of the lower things. In other words, there was a vertical scale, and René Descartes came along and said that only such knowledge is worth having as can be absolutely precise. The model for this was geometry and mathematics, which automatically confines attention only to the lower things. Only these things can be mathematized. But these mysterious factors like life or consciousness, or, at a human level, self-awareness, the kind of consciousness that recoils upon itself and thereby opens all doors, can never be mathematized. They cannot be known with precision. They can only be known to the extent that we can mobilize inside ourselves the quantities necessary for knowing. So, there can be no question of complete precision, let alone measurement. And this was the great moment when Francis Bacon said that, in the words of Descartes, we shall make ourselves the masters and possessors of nature. "The masters and possessors of nature": this is an entirely new attitude that previously no part of mankind had ever held. Historically, we had looked upon ourselves as, in a sense, creatures. But that we should have even the ambition to become masters and possessors – that is where the real deeply-rooted violence comes from. Descartes already, wanting to be precise, said that animals are machines. Then, of course, it only took 100 years before the next philosopher came along and said human beings are machines. And when these ideas gradually take root in a civilization it doesn't take very long before they are carried into practice. We know we have carried the idea that, after all, animals are only machines. We have carried this into practice with a vengeance. They are machines to produce eggs or machines to produce meat in great animal factories – again, an example of the violent spirit that comes from wrong metaphysical positions.
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Luang Prabang, Laos, 2009
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