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temporary yet experienced smaller realities is suggested. The photos that belong to the
author and included here are created with the motivation of generating a richer
definition of reality as an accumulated entity that is the result of a particular witnessing
at a particular time. A final quote from Mark Kingwell will back this aim: “The truth of
the image is the truth of time: not its metaphysical essence, whatever that might be, but
its presence; its inescapability. A photograph, I want to say, is a machine for making
worlds.” [Kin06]
References
[Kin06] KINGWELL, M., 2006. The Truth in Photographs: Edward Burtynsky's
Revelations of Excess. Steidl, Germany.
[Flu00] FLUSSER, V., 2000. Towards A Philosophy of Photography. Reaktion Books.
[DG87] DELEUZE, G., GUATTARI, F., 1987. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and
Schizophrenia. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, USA.
[Cap75] CAPRA, F., 1975. The Tao of Physics. Shambhala Publications, Inc.; 4th
edition (2000). Original edition, Wildwood House (1975).
Appendix (Author’s Artworks)
Figure 13: Cigarette break, 2008, Frankfurt, Germany. Photo by Murat Germen.
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