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“Photographers tend not to photograph what they can’t see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we’re going to go on forever just photographing more faces and more rooms and more places. Photography has to transcend description. It has to go beyond description to bring insight into the subject, or reveal the subject, not as it looks, but how does it feel?”
“Photographers undervalue the use of a wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography.”
“Photographers want to reinvent you, to take you somewhere else, to show you in a completely different way. They look at your previous work, and try to figure out what they can do to show a new side of you.”
“Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits.”
“Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.”
“Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols.”
Source: Towards a Philosophy of Photography
“Photographers, like kids, should be seen and not heard.”
“Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.”
“Photographic cropping is always experienced as a rupture in the continuous fabric of reality.”
Source: The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths
“Photographic data... is still and ESSENTIALLY THE SAFEST POETIC MEDIUM and the most agile process for catching the most delicate osmoses which exist between reality and surreality. The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.”
“Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!”
“Photographing a cake can be art.”
“Photographing a culture in the here and now often means photographing the intersection of the present with the past.”
Source: Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision
“Photographing attractive people who were doing attractive things in attractive places. (Summary of his photographic career)”
“Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire to preserve oneself.”
“Photographing is an emotional thing, a graceful thing. Photography allows me to wander with a purpose.”
Source: This is the Day: The March on Washington
“Photographing plants makes you look carefully and become aware of the many solutions plants provide to human problems”
“Photographing these flowers has made me see the world differently. It was as if I had lifted a secret veil from a subject I had loved and appreciated my whole life. I offer these photographs with the hope that they will open a new visual or meditative universe for you as well.”
“Photographs [are] of course heavily dependent upon the culture, the disciplinary point of view and the idiosyncratic vision of the particular photographer-analyst.”
Source: The small conference: An innovation in communication
“Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something that is different from our own setting.”
“photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing.”
Source: On photography
“Photographs and reality are just night and day. In reality, the information is all there. A photograph is just kind of a hint.”
“Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. One can't possess reality, one can possess (and be possessed by) images — as, according to Proust, most ambitious of voluntary prisoners, one can't possess the present but one can possessthe past.”
“Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. Or they enlarge a reality that is felt to be shrunk, hollowed out, perishable, remote. One can't possess reality, one can possess (and be possessed by) images.”
Source: A Susan Sontag reader
“Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what is there.”
“Photographs are but one link in a potentially endless chain of reduplication; themselves duplicates (of both their objects and, in a sense, their negatives), they are also subject to further duplication, either through the procedures of printing or as objects of still other photographs.”
Source: Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture
“Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed.”
“Photographs are diary entries That's all they can be. Photographs are just documentations of a day's event. At the same time, they drag the past into the present and also continue into the future. A day's occurrence evokes both the past and the future. That's why I want to clearly date my pictures. It's actually frustrating, that's why I now photograph the future”
“Photographs are interpretations of reality; as such, it is entirely subjective. Most photos are taken with an agenda, to sell something or to make a subject look better than it really is. Think of family snapshots - everyone is smiling and happy.”
“Photographs are just light and time,”
Source: Turtles All the Way Down
“Photographs are like our children. We put the best of ourselves into them - the best of our vision, our minds, our hearts - and then we send them out into the world. At some moment, perhaps the moment we click the shutter, they are being released. From that moment on, they don't really belong to us anymore.”
“Photographs are never records of the way things are; they're records of the way things were.”
“Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.”
Source: Colonialism and Neocolonialism
“Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.”
Source: Francis Bacon
“Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.”
Source: Critical Focus: Photography in the International Image Community
“Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood.”
“Photographs are still always depictions, it's just that for my generation the model for the photograph is probably not reality any more, but images we have of that reality.”
“Photographs are still being taken but aren't being shown. There's one of a skeleton bound at the wrists with pants still around its ankles; if it was a woman, she was likely raped; if it was a man, he was possibly castrated.”
“Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.”
Source: how to save your own life
“Photographs are the reflection of untold stories, unseen beauties, unexpressed emotions, and the unheard songs of life.”
“Photographs are the results of a diminution of solar energy, and the camera is an entropic machine for recording gradual loss of light.”
Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings
“Photographs are two-dimensional. I work in four dimensions.”
“Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.”
“Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.”
“Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.”
Source: Selected Essays of John Berger
“Photographs can be forms of recruitment, ways of bringing the viewer into the military, as it were. In this way, they prepare us for war, even enlist us in war, at the level of the senses, establishing a sensate regime of war.”
“Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.”
Source: Of Love and Shadows: A Novel
“Photographs don’t lie, but liars may photograph”
“Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.”
Source: The House at Riverton: A Novel
“Photographs freed from the scientific bias can, and indeed usually do, have double meanings, implied meanings, unintended meanings, can hint and insinuate, and may even mean the opposite of what they apparently mean.”
Source: Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography