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“Photographs need to demand the viewer's attention, often implicitly, posing questions as to the nature of what is being depicted. Photographs are not there to show us the world, but to show us a version of what may be happening.”

World Needs May Shows Attention Demand Happenings Photograph Versions Viewers Posing

Author:Fred Ritchin

“The photograph that discovers and uncovers the world is harder to simulate than an image that simply illustrates one's ideas about it.”

World Ideas Harder Photograph Simulate

Book:In our own image: the coming revolution in photography : how computer technology is changing our view of the world

Source: In our own image: the coming revolution in photography : how computer technology is changing our view of the world

“We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking at entry points to information and to the world in which the image was made.”

People World Firsts Made Ideas Steps Information Photograph Abandon First Steps Entry

Author:Fred Ritchin

“We have faith in the photograph not only because it works on a physically descriptive level, but in a broader sense because it confirms our sense of omnipresence as well as the validity of the material world.”

World Wells Levels Materials Photograph Have Faith Validity Material World

Book:In our own image: the coming revolution in photography : how computer technology is changing our view of the world

Source: In our own image: the coming revolution in photography : how computer technology is changing our view of the world

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