Tim Flach - Animal Photography
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Tim Flach - Animal Photography
"Every animal is a tradition, and together animals are a vast part of our heritage as human beings.
No animal completely lacks humanity, yet no person is ever completely human. By ourselves, we people are simply balls
of protoplasm. We merge with animals through magic, metaphor, or fantasy, growing their fangs and putting on their
feathers. Then we become funny or tragic; we can be loved, hated, pitied, and admired. For us, animals are all the strange,
beautiful, pitiable, and frightening things that they have ever been: gods, slaves, totems, sages, tricksters, devils, clowns,
companions, lovers, and far more. When we contemplate the inner life of animals, myth is finally our only truth."
from: Boria Sax, “Animals as Tradition”
( +15 )
Tim Flach - Animal Photography
"Every animal is a tradition, and together animals are a vast part of our heritage as human beings.
No animal completely lacks humanity, yet no person is ever completely human. By ourselves, we people are simply balls
of protoplasm. We merge with animals through magic, metaphor, or fantasy, growing their fangs and putting on their
feathers. Then we become funny or tragic; we can be loved, hated, pitied, and admired. For us, animals are all the strange,
beautiful, pitiable, and frightening things that they have ever been: gods, slaves, totems, sages, tricksters, devils, clowns,
companions, lovers, and far more. When we contemplate the inner life of animals, myth is finally our only truth."
from: Boria Sax, “Animals as Tradition”
( +15 )