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The Kept and the Killed (2022)

• Bengalilol 8mo ago
  This made me wonder (although the article nails my point) why Stryker hasn't actually killed all those punched photographs. I even went down the loc.gov rabbit hole (I am still there).
• kayo_20211030 8mo ago
  > encyclopedic ambitions Does that phrase even make sense? I stopped reading at that point.
  • retrac 8mo ago
    ambitions of encyclopedic scope, something like "hoping to cover all the domains of knowledge"; in the context of a photographer, to photograph everything worth photographing
    • kayo_20211030 8mo ago
      I get where you're coming from, but "encyclopedic" has a pretty specific definition, and it doesn't twin with "ambition" in any sensible way. It seems like it should, but it doesn't. I'm commenting on the poor writing. Maybe "grand ambitions", or "colossal ambitions"? "encyclopedic ambitions" just doesn't work, unless we're going with vibe-writing :-)