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When photography was invented, people had to make room in their minds for the idea that the dead would always be visible.

Vicki Goldberg

Often what is nearest is hardest of all to see - try asking a fish to define water. Distance opens a door to revelation. When the first great distances of space were conquered by technology, a camera altered the human perspective on the Earth as radically as Galileo did when he proved the sun was the center of the universe. The ecology movement was born from a photographically altered consciousness.

Vicki Goldberg

Vicki Goldberg

Vicki Goldberg

Born: July 24, 1936

Died: May 29, 2025 (aged 88)

Bio: Vicki Goldberg was an American photography critic, author, and photo historian. She authored several books and written articles on the subjects of photography and its social history.

Known for:

The power of photography (1991)
Light Matters (2005)
American photography (1999)
Lewis W. Hine children at work (1999)

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