civilized ku # 551 ~ memento mori

Garbage that missed the trash can • click to embiggen

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

Comments

[Jimmi Nuffin]

Since this isn't facebook, I can't hit the "like" button.

[aaron]

"It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people."

- Bob Dylan

[Andreas Manessinger]

There is a cruel humor in it, I absolutely love it :)