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All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person__ (or thing__) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time__ relentless melt.
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All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person__ (or thing__) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time__ relentless melt.

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