Photographers represented occasions once. You dressed for them as you might for church; they cost money, they recorded important moments.
Michael Lesy
In family snapshots the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.
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You faced front, you seldom smiled, since levity was not the mark you wanted put across your face forever.
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Rescues; The Lives of Heroes
heroes lives
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