The Sacred Elegance
of Contradiction
by Paul Duane
All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
If you can create something time cannot erode, something which ignores the eccentricities of particular eras or moments, something truly timeless … this is the “ultimate victory”.
Photography
from the Greek: phōs (light) + graphé (writing)
— “to write with light.”
I approach image making in the same way I’d carefully pen a descriptive paragraph – with clarity and economy of words. Each element of a photograph is a piece of visual language. The shapes, lines, and gradients of black and white are my favorite phrases.
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