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“Particularly in the case of all professional of press-images which testify of the real events. In making reality, even the most violent, emerge to the visible, it makes the real substance disappear.”
— Jean Baudrillard, The Violence of the Image (1987, trans. 1990), European Graduate School. https://web.archive.org/web/20050316075628/http://www.egs.edu/faculty/baudrillard/baudrillard-the-violence-of-the-image.html
“It is perhaps not a surprise that photography developed as a technological medium in the industrial age, when reality started to disappear. It is even perhaps the disappearance of reality that triggered this technical form. Reality found a way to mutate into an image.”
— Jean Baudrillard, Photography, or the Writing of Light (2002), European Graduate School. https://web.archive.org/web/20091020175115/http://www.egs.edu/faculty/baudrillard/baudrillard-photography-or-the-writing-of-light.html
“There are no permanent ideas that return again and disappear again.”
— Wilhelm Wundt, An Introduction to Psychology (1912; 1924), p. 122.

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