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“The camera's perspective exactly matches that of the assassin: it now shoots the tourists shooting their own memorial photos, and we can watch this in real time.”

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Joachim Schmid

Limited information is available about Joachim Schmid, who was born on May 21, 1955. He is an individual of an unknown profession. more

“Like most portrait photographers, I aim to record the instant the subject is not thinking about being photographed, striving to get beyond the practiced facial performance, reaching for something unplanned. While trying to be as objective as possible, I acknowledge that every gesture is still an act of artifice.”

Thinking Trying Stills Records Subjects Performances Aim Strive Photographer Objectives Acknowledge Instant Reaching Gestures Portraits Artifice Facial

Author:Martin Schoeller

“Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.”

Promise Photography Anarchy Mastery

Author:Allan Sekula

“The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.”

Conditions Depends Messages Photograph Incomplete Utterance

Book:Photography against the grain: essays and photo works, 1973-1983

Source: Photography against the grain: essays and photo works, 1973-1983

“The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.”

Offers Photograph Objectives Assertion Objective Truth

Book:Photography against the grain: essays and photo works, 1973-1983

Source: Photography against the grain: essays and photo works, 1973-1983

“The making of a human likeness on film is a political act.”

Humans Film Political

Book:Photography against the grain: essays and photo works, 1973-1983

Source: Photography against the grain: essays and photo works, 1973-1983

“Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism, to terror, envy and nostalgia, and only a little to the critical understanding of the social world.”

World Littles Social Understanding Mountain Photography Evidence Terror Critical Envy Nostalgia Genre Documentaries Documentary Photography

Book:Dismal science: photo works, 1972-1996

Source: Dismal science: photo works, 1972-1996

“Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-expression on the part of the artist.”

World Firsts Art Self Artist Expression Documentaries Self Expression

Book:Dismal science: photo works, 1972-1996

Source: Dismal science: photo works, 1972-1996

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