The Power of Images

The Year of Fog gets a mention today in the Knoxville News-Sentinel. Book reviewer Ina Hughes contemplates the nature of images in Pulitzer Prize-winning scientist Douglas Hofstadter’s book I Am a Strange Loop, now out in paperback from Basic Books. Hughes calls I Am A Strange Loop “a fascinating, lay-friendly book about the workings of the brain and the meaning of words.” Sounds like my kind of book!

A taste from Hofstadter’s book:

In just as potent a fashion, looking at that photograph of Dad brings back, to us who knew him intimately.

Hughes goes on to quote The Year of Fog “on the power of images, and why we take them.

We take pictures because we can’t accept that everything passes, we can’t accept that the repetition of a moment is an impossibility. …We take pictures because we know we will forget. … We will forget when we were the happiest.<0x00A0> … We fear that we will die and others will not know that we have lived.

Tags: Douglas Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop, photography, The Year of Fog