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# Pictures
- URL: https://www.jamesreeves.co/pictures/
- Published: 2020-10-12T23:07:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-15T03:49:45.000Z
- Author: James A. Reeves
- Tags: Notebook

October weather at last. A blustery evening, damp and grey. Maybe it’s the remnants of a tropical storm. While running through the rainy dark, someone stepped in front of me and took my picture for no apparent reason. Maybe they needed a snapshot of a man lumbering into middle age.

*Took my picture.* Such an odd phrase, as if we carry a single image of ourselves with us like a rare object, something that can be snatched away. This line of thinking brought to mind a quote from Milan Kundera’s *Immortality*: “Even when I was a child, adults would ask me: little girl, may we take your picture? And then one day they stopped asking. The right of the camera was elevated above all other rights, and that changed everything.”

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#### [Franz Falckenhaus – Secret Photographs](http://jamesr323.sg-host.com/radio/Secret%20Photographs.mp3?ref=jamesreeves.co)

###### Stories from My Cold War | Strange Life, 2006 | [Bandcamp](https://viewlexx.bandcamp.com/album/strange-life-records-slr012-stories-from-my-cold-war?ref=jamesreeves.co)

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