I do think the past changes at a slower rate. It sits a little more still for its portrait.
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It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around.
One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.
The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
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