“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”
— Susan Sontag
Notes:
- memento mori: (Latin) a reminder of mortality (First Known Use: 1598) (Source: Merriam Webster)
- Credits: Photograph: Thank you Carol @ Radiating Blossom. Quote: Museoleum
“…time’s relentless melt.” Yes…..
yes, esp love that part of quote…
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must get a new camera and freeze some of those moments so they will not melt…………
Yes!
That’s Amazingly….Great concept, Sex for the eyes….
Yes, it’s a great shot…
yes, exactly. a ‘screen shot’ of a moment in life if you will.
In a tube buried underground for future generations to see…
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Photographs are memories …. love the movement!!!
Thanks for sharing Dr. Rex.
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I just love this. thank you. Need to get back to getting my camera in hand.
Hit me similarly Bonnie…loved it too
Awesome image!!
It is!
What a great observation and image. My freezer is full of time slices too. Of variable quality.
Freezer?
How else would one preserve slices of life frozen in time?
Laughing. Got it now! Thanks!
Always.
Yes!
This is a W.O.W !!!
Yes!
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