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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.

Source: About Looking, Uses of Photography (1980).
-- John Berger, (Nov 5 1926-2017), English painter, teacher, art critic; He began his career as a painter and teacher of drawing; became art critic for the Tribune, and New Statesman.

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