Vicki Goldberg
[Critic and writer, St. Louis, Missouri, lives in New York.]
When photography was invented, people had to make room in their minds for the idea that the dead would always be visible.
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Often what is nearest is hardest of all to see—try asking a fish to define water. Distance opens a door to revelation. When the first great distances of space were conquered by technology, a camera altered the human perspective on the Earth as radically as Galileo did when he proved the sun was the center of the universe. The ecology movement was born from a photographically altered consciousness.
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