in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes. 'The necessary condition for an image is sight,' Janouch told Kafka; and Kafka smiled and replied: 'We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.” It is Occasionally better to look at an image with eyes closed, for attaining an absolute mentality and allow intricacies to be penetrated the real conscious with their inclination and will.
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.A Strong image must have a sequence. Photography is devastating and destructive, but not at the moment of amazement but when it means out of its superficial way and makes us act. Pictures have the capability to be substituted the reality because they exceed Image, they are footsteps, ... Materialistic remnants.
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The frame is active in street photography. Picture structure is initiated from the frame and spreads into it. We understand, it continues beyond the frame but the picture is an independent world. Of course, this property comprises the other aesthetical photographic samples but far more about street photography. In street photography, the image is less manipulated, more simple, more haphazard, and more instant therefore its impression is more profound. All those realities which have been normalized into trivial during a day are going to be represented but once in a more meticulous perspective or even unfamiliar way. Practically, it begets formalism perception in mind which the realities become unfamiliar,... at the same time, realism and righteousness of photography make the result to a masterpiece. an image that does not happen again.
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In Barthes’s opinion, Picture depicts a moment that is neither subject nor an object but is changing one to the other and experiences "death" on a small scale when one observes it from the point of a viewer. Why Black and white? I will accept this scholium that black and white images are more measured, more graceful, less emotional, and corresponds to pure reality itself. 
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The collection you are going to observe is pieces of 2010 till today.

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​Babak Nazari 
September 2020.