On the ‘Impurity’ of group f/64 photography

Abstract

The final paradox of the search for purity is that it is an attempt to force experience into logical categories of non-contradiction. But experience is not amenable and those who make the attempt find themselves led into contradiction ... . A garden is not a tapestry; if all the weeds are removed, the soil is impoverished. Somehow the gardener must preserve fertility by returning what he has taken out. The special kind of treatment which some religions accord to anomalies and abominations to make them poweiful for good is like turning weeds and lawn cuttings into compost. — Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger1

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