Quote/SETTING SUN

Landscape is thus not considered static, but transient, ephemeral, never stopping.

p42

It is therefore from the gap between perceptions of cruel reality and his weltanschanuung - in other words , from inter play between the extremes of the real and the ideal, as they are juxtaposed in his shutter- that meaning arises.

It is without question precisely in this juxtaposition that one can find the potential relevance of photography to history, culture and politics most closely approaching the realm of probability. One may never be able to discover anything so enigmatic as "the truth" in a photograph, but if one were to settle for something close to it , it maybe that it consists of neither an absolute affirmation nor an absolute denial anything, but something between the two. For example, if one were to photograph a single tree as an absolute instance of a tree and at the same time doubt the established concept of "tree-ness" itself, and see it as a physical entity that is something other than a tree, then one would begin to realize the necessity of having multiple vantage points.

The Decision to Shoot / Daido Moriyama / p34