“ What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it? ”
Clear now that she was as dependent as any addict on the drug of the war. He had underestimated the damage in her.
~ Tatjana Soli
Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame, the best picture contained a whole war within one frame.
A woman sees war differently.
She had always assumed that her life would end inside the war, that the war itself would be her eternal present, as it was for Darrow and for her brother. The possibility of time going on, her memories growing dim, the photographs of the battles turning from life into history terrified her.
