Jean Mohr

Every revolutionary protest is also a project against people being the objects of history.

Today, when things are changing politically and it seems possible for man to change his fate, such people are becoming aware of the differences between different countries.

The space for this construction is, as it were, cleared by his rejection of what he did not choose to photograph.

Personal psychology replaces philosophy as an explanation of the world.

What sustained them all as practices was the belief that observable quantifiable facts, recorded by scientists and experts, would one day offer man such a total knowledge about nature and society that he would be able to order them both.

What was achieved was unprecedented scientific and technical progress and, eventually, the subordination of all other values to those of a world market which treats everything, including people and their labour and their lives and their deaths, as a commodity.

All subjectivity is treated as private, and the only (false) form of it which is socially allowed is that of the individual consumer’s dream.