Photograph metaphors

Photographs give us the sense we can hold the whole world in our hands.
To collect photographs is to collect the world.
The camera is the ideal arm of consciousness.
Photographs are miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire.
Photographs seem to have a more innocent, and therefore more accurate, relation to visible reality than do other mimetic objects.
Political Conceiousness.
Photographs are corrupt.
Photographs are a privileged moment.

Photographs are a time line.
Like a car a camera is sold as a predatory weapon, one that is automated as ready as possible ready to spring.
Like guns and cars, cameras are fantasy machines thats use is addictive.
A photograph is both a pseudo precense and a token absence. Like a wood in fire in a room.
The act of photgraphing is more then passive observing.
Photgraphs are more memorable then moving images because they are a unique slice of time.
In situations where the photgrapher has the choice between a photograph and a life, to choose the photograph. The person who intevenes can not record, the person who records can not intervene.