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“If your pictures aren't good, you're not reading enough.” — Tod Papageorge
A copy of the book To Photograph is to Learn How to Die on a wooden bar next to a camera and a pint glass of beer

An Instant Classic: To Photograph is to Learn How to Die

Italo Calvino said that a classic is a book that has “never finished saying what it has to say.” And so it goes with Tim Carpenter's book-length essay To Photograph is to Learn How to Die. Heavily steeped in literature—most notably Wallace Stevens, but also many
Bud Parr 12 Jan 2025

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