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Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.”

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George Bernard Shaw (July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950) was an Irish-British playwright, critic, and socialist. He is renowned for his satirical and witty dramatic works. more

“I don't know whether we think in moving images or whether we think in still images. I have a suspicion that on our hard drive, our series within our brains, [exist] still photographs of very important moments in our lives. ... That we think in terms of still images and that what the photography is doing is making direct contact with the human hard drive and recording for all time a sense of what happened.”

Thinking Knows Humans Stills Important Hard Moments Moving Term Brain Our Lives Happened Photography Direct Series Photograph Contact All Time Suspicion Important Moments Moments In Our Lives

Author:Jon Snow

“To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like power.”

World Feels Mean Certain Photography Relation Photograph Oneself Appropriate

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.”

Persons Turns Events Photography Photograph Possessed

Book:Regarding the Pain of Others

Source: Regarding the Pain of Others

“Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an art form at all. Like language, it is a medium in which works of art (among other things) are made.”

Giving Art Made Form Lying Language Pleasure Photography Mediums Works Of Art Aesthetic Subjectivity

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller readership-a photograph has only one language and is destined potentially for all.”

Language Written Photography Accounts Photograph Complexity Contrast Vocabulary Destined Readership

Book:Regarding the Pain of Others

Source: Regarding the Pain of Others

“People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting.”

People Thinking Wells Water Failing Painting Photography Draws Cameras Folly

Author:Edward Weston

“Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.”

Thinking Photography Subversive Pensive

Author:Roland Barthes

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