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Each image suggests an inner reality, a kind of scar of the past, a reflection of an act or an event once lived.

Peter Bunnell

In photography, the issue of the integration of form and content is exceptionally difficult because of the widely held belief that photographs must be a kind of vicarious experience of the subject itself.

Peter Bunnell

Photographs freed from the scientific bias can, and indeed usually do, have double meanings, implied meanings, unintended meanings, can hint and insinuate, and may even mean the opposite of what they apparently mean.

Peter Bunnell

The nineteenth-century way of looking at the photograph was as a mirror for the memory, and at that time the photographs almost looked like mirrors, with their polished metallic surfaces.

Peter Bunnell

Peter Bunnell

Peter Bunnell

Born: October 25, 1937

Died: September 20, 2021 (aged 83)

Bio: Peter C. Bunnell was an American author, scholar and historian of photography. For more than 40 years he had a significant impact on collecting, exhibiting, teaching and practicing photography through his work as a university professor, museum curator and prolific author.

Known for:

Minor White: The Eye that Shapes
Inside the Photograph (2006)
Museum Studies (1999)
Photography at Princeton (1998)

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