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Civilization: The Way We Live Now
Preface / Jut Art Museum
Photography, a manifestation of contemporary eyes, not only gazes at our civilization but also greatly illuminates our contemporary life.
Humankind is in an era of rapid progress, and human civilization is evolving, expanding, and mutating with an unimaginable force in this globalized world. The development and spread of images have rendered them part of our daily existence. Our ability to receive images is humbled by the sheer quantity and speed of their appearance before our eyes. No sooner did the camera shutter click, than a piece of the world was recorded in the picture. Photography is not so much a statement about the world as part of it, whether witnessed by our own eyes or viewed through photographic works. “Photographs, which cannot themselves explain anything, are inexhaustible invitations to deduction, speculation, and fantasy,” Susan Sontag wrote in her seminal book On Photography. Today, human civilization has fused with the fast-evolving medium of photography in an indisputable fashion and with an unprecedented degree of closeness to every dimension of our contemporary society.
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