Word: photographeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PHOTOGRAPH fills different needs at different times in life. One of our deepest needs comes in early childhood. The world around the child is shifting and fleeting and unreliable and hazardous. It cannot be retained; it is constantly slipping away. To a child, a photograph gives a permanent thing that is both outside himself and part of himself. He gets a new kind of security from every picture he takes...
...grow older, photographs fill other needs. The world recedes from us. A photograph makes permanent our own perception of a portion of that world; particularly a perception that we care about...
Look at each of us right now. As we look around, this seems an unforgettable moment; yet we will forget it, and that's sad. A photograph could save it. If I were to take your picture, I would not be able to get into the picture everything I sense when I look at you, but I would capture enough of what I sense so that when I looked at the picture later it would bring back almost everything...
Irresistibly, you share a photograph with someone who is with you, and he or she gets a deeper insight into you as well as what you discerned. When you see the best picture I took of you, for example, you will know a little bit more, not just about yourself, but also about me. The fact that I could see you the way I did should be a comforting thing to you, because you know that a nebulous feeling you have about yourself, something you like about yourself, is transferable to someone else...
...historical and folk sources help provide the novel with its setting, pictorial images--paintings, photographs, film--give it its drama. There are moments when even the characters realize that a scene they are enacting would make an impressive page of art or a vision in the Bible--a white woman walking through a market full of Indians, for instance, feels like the angel looking for Jacob in a desert encampment of unbelieving women. And several times, Wilson mentions visual images that have stirred his own imagination--a curled brown photograph of Juan Tushim's grandfather, a scene in Bunuel...