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January 17, 2012
“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.” ~ James Baldwin
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Nice photo!
Can we use it for our site http://yeahiloveit.com ?
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This tells the story. Love Jame’s Baldwin, my hero.
Thanks for stopping by. Baldwin’s words, “vomit up the anguish” are so descriptive and true. I like hearing the stories others see in a picture.
What a wonderful quote and the picture with it is perfectly apropos.
I shall add that quote to my ever-growing collection.xxxx
Andrea
I agree with you about Baldwin’s quote. When reading that kind of quote I think, “I wish I had said that.” The next best thing is to have found it after someone else said it. ~ Paulann
Great photo and quote!
As a kid I uses to wonder how journalists in Vietnam could take the photos they did without doing something to help. I have many friends who are now journalists and I get it: we must have a record of what has come and gone. Those photos have helped me explain the horrors of war to my son (censored of course for his maturity level) embedded journalists are reporting nothing. I know them. Their hands are tied. That is not truth; that does not spark outrage or concern.
My parents home was flooded twice in Iowa. Without the photos nationwide there would not have been the outpouring of support
Art is communication. Art has power.
So does knowledge and heart.
XO. Jen
Thank you, Jen. I agree that sometimes the stark truth of a photo gives voice to the story and beyond. It creates a visceral response in us which is very powerful, like the call to action you mentioned with the flooding in Iowa. The camera gives us unaltered reality.
~ Paulann