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“Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.”

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“In our time photojournalists were as important as the writers. Today not so. Photojournalism is diminishing. Now everyone is a free artist, which can only be in photography. For he is taking pictures! Releases the shutter and becomes an artist. Godsend people they are, otherwise the world was doomed. They are so significant. I fear bumping into one of these celebrities walking in the street, which would be very disrespectful indeed.”

Photography Photojournalism

Book:Fotocep

Source: Fotocep

“When you raise the camera to your eye you become responsible for contextualizing the history of the person you are photographing. It is critical that photographers take that responsibility as seriously as they do the photograph itself. Stories need to be approached with intellectual curiosity rather than a mere visual curiosity. It is also critical they consider the people they are photographing as collaborators, not “subjects.”

Photography Ethics Photographer Photojournalism Neetasatam

Author:Neeta Satam

“Finding a protest without placards is like photographing a hippie without a bong.”

Photojournalism Steve Merrick Stevesevilempire

Author:Steve Merrick

“Visual violence is the impact caused by the constant, unrelenting and dehumanizing way Black and Brown skinned people are depicted visually. If it’s not poverty, it’s plight. If it’s not plight, it’s pain. If it’s not pain, it’s poverty.”

Violence Photography Photojournalism Theblackgaze

Author:Shaun Connell

“Engrave this Quote Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner -- the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.”

Surrealismo

Book:Surrealist Manifesto

Source: Surrealist Manifesto

“FIGURA DE CASCABELES. (Tembloroso.) ¿Y si yo me convirtiera en pez luna? FIGURA DE PÁMPANOS. (Levantándose.) Yo me convertiría en cuchillo. En un cuchillo afilado durante cuatro largas primaveras.”

Surrealismo

Book:El público

Source: El público

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