Don’t get the idea that the private affairs of your contemporaries are any special concern of mine, nor that I enjoy gossiping about other people’s doings. What I should like, however, is to be able to extend my friendship or my love to people I do not know, will never know, do not wish to know. Their name, age, tastes don’t matter to me. Try to understand me. For me, they cannot just be human creatures like others.
There is the photograph between us. […]The day photography was born humanity won a precious victory over time, its most redoubtable enemy.
Carlo Rim, On the Snapshot (1930). Quoted in The Cinematic from MIT Press.
