Thomas Pynchon on photography

A screaming comes across the sky.

All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.

History, the proverb says, is made at night. The European civil servant normally sleeps at night. What waits in his IN basket to confront him at nine in the morning is history.

I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.

Pablo Picasso1881–1973

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

Ansel Adams1902–1984

Not everybody trusts paintings, but people believe photographs.

Ansel Adams1902–1984