“Working with existing pictures, like I do, you constantly think about the flood of images we are subjected to and you want to figure out how you can make sense of it.” ThinkingWantFiguresMake SenseFlood Author:Thomas Demand
“[With my photographs] you have a [single, forever fixed] moment and my particular angle of vision. My tyrannical condition, as it were, is that I prescribe your vision.” MomentsVisionForeverConditionsParticularPhotographFixedAngle Author:Thomas Demand
“Fashion is the opposite of the real, its worst enemy. Fashion photography is subversive; it makes you believe everything is true, whereas this could not be more false. It is the opposite of a mirror, a deformation.” BelieveRealEnemyWorstFashionPhotographyOppositesMirrorsSubversiveWorst EnemyFashion Photography Author:Patrick Demarchelier
“I'm coming from journalism, but at the same time I'm tempted by poetry, politics, and maybe the idea of being a witness, a belief that you can still change things with the image.” StillsIdeasBeliefJournalismWitnessTempted Author:Raymond Depardon
“When the American documentary filmmaker Donn Alan Pennebaker wanted to do a film on Dylan, Dylan asked him what he'd already done, and Pennebaker answered, Nothing except shots in the street. Dylan asked to see them, and he agreed to let him do the film.” DoneWantedFilmStreetsShotsFilmmakerDocumentariesDylan Author:Raymond Depardon
“The subject isn't always a help to the photographer, it's like handcuffs.” HelpingSubjectsPhotographerHandcuffs Author:Raymond Depardon
“I like to be on my own when I look at my contact sheets, because I'm often disappointed... But as years go by we become proud of our old contact sheets. They are a tool that allows us to fight against time.” YearsLooksFightingMy OwnProudToolsContactDisappointedSheets Author:Raymond Depardon
“The richness of our contemporary visual world must be seen as a danger. It is an overwhelming and oppressive world. A world that manifests itself fundamentally through the image is only a few steps from totalitarian manipulation.” WorldStepsDangerContemporaryVisualsManipulationOverwhelmingRichness Author:Edmundo Desnoes
“Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working behind the camera. They are not reality, they form part of the language of culture.” MenWorldRealityFormCultureLanguageBehindsExpressionPhotographyCamerasInvisibleFraudConvincingFooled Author:Edmundo Desnoes