What: "Ah, this is another possible answer: Photography is like beauty. Fleeting. Subjective. To quote Aquinas, beauty is "wholeness, harmony, radiance." To quote James Joyce on Aquinas, "wholeness" is apprehending the object as separate from all else - as in apprehending a pair of shoes as separate from all else (editing, choosing, isolating). "Radiance" is the "whatness" of the object, the essence of that object that makes it distinctly what it is and nothing else-like the pumpkin-ness of the "ugly" pumpkins we viewed, or the "water buffalo-ness" of the water buffalo. "

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Date: Jun 6 2014 6:18 PM