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I use zero photography. I have a photographic memory and a complete knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and an interest in grasping the moment of what is happening, not just the outside, but the inside out. -- Richard MacDonald
Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone - that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity. -- Joshua Foer
The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory. -- Keith Carter
Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power. -- Georges Didi-Huberman
I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood. -- Gregory Crewdson
How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs? -- Allan Sekula

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