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Steve Norquist: "The viewer/reader/listener takes an eminently subjective position on any work of art...to me these photos do not deserve any attempts to banish them from memory. Somehow I think the photographer would agree.
JM: I didn't mean to suggest that these photograps should be banished from any "historic or historical memory"(of course!), but I described my private attempt to avoid having them pop up, unexpectedly, in my computer.
"Electronic memory" is quite distinct from Proust's "involuntary memory," from Freud's "return of the repressed." or from Nabokov's "Mnemosyne's mysterious foresight in having stored up this or that element which creative imagination may want to use when combining it with later recollections and inventions"... The need to explain my intention shows how easily misunderstandings arise (and can be verbally set right) is another instance of having images "speak out their thousand words" (Nabokov even expected that his "words", such as garden or water, by their power to conjure up visual, tactile, and/or sonorous images, should be interpreted following the sentence in which they are used!)
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JM: I didn't mean to suggest that these photograps should be banished from any "historic or historical memory"(of course!), but I described my private attempt to avoid having them pop up, unexpectedly, in my computer.
"Electronic memory" is quite distinct from Proust's "involuntary memory," from Freud's "return of the repressed." or from Nabokov's "Mnemosyne's mysterious foresight in having stored up this or that element which creative imagination may want to use when combining it with later recollections and inventions"... The need to explain my intention shows how easily misunderstandings arise (and can be verbally set right) is another instance of having images "speak out their thousand words" (Nabokov even expected that his "words", such as garden or water, by their power to conjure up visual, tactile, and/or sonorous images, should be interpreted following the sentence in which they are used!)
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