T Quotes
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“The photograph doesn't claim to be a participant, or to know, or to be a club member of whatever it's documenting - photography is more demanding when it doesn't pretend to know.”
“The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism.”
“The photograph is a tool used to take you back to a certain point in one's life, to remember a face or a place you once stood. I feel there is always something quite melancholic about a photograph.”
“The photograph is always more interesting than what the photograph is of.”
“The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its very existence ... The Photograph then becomes a bizarre (i)medium(i), a new form of hallucination: false on the level of perception, true on the level of time: a temporal hallucination, so to speak, a modest (o)shared(i) hallucination (on the one hand 'it is not there,' on the other 'but it has indeed been'): a mad image, chafed by reality.”
“The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.”
Source: Photography against the grain: essays and photo works, 1973-1983
“The photograph is an undeniably powerful medium. Free from the constraints of language, and harnessing the unique qualities of a single moment frozen in time.”
“The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography.”
“The photograph is kind of a proof - a proof that I actually met these people, that they actually have lives, and that they're worth considering.”
“The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.”
Source: Regarding the Pain of Others
“The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here; the duration of the transmission is insignificant; the photograph of the missing being, as Sontag says, will touch me like the delayed rays of a star.”
“The photograph is married to the eye,
Grafts on its bride one-sided skins of truth.”
Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas
“The photograph is not only a pictorial report; it is also a psychological report. It represents the feelings and point of view of the intelligence behind the camera.”
“The photograph is the most perfect picture. It does not change; it is absolute, and therefore autonomous, unconditional, devoid of style. Both in its way of informing, and in what it informs of, it is my source.”
“The photograph is the only picture that can truly convey information, even if it is technically faulty and the object can barely be identified. A painting of a murder is of no interest whatever; but a photograph of a murder fascinates everyone.”
Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007
“The photograph is to a great degree evidence of the conversation I had with the person. It's a part of my visual diary.”
“The Photograph is violent: not because it shows violent tings, but because on each occasion (i)it fills the sight by force(i), and because in it nothing can be refused or transformed (that we can sometimes call it mild does not contradict its violence: many say that sugar is mild, but to me sugar is violent, and I call it so).”
“The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.”
“The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding of his subject and mastery of his process.”
Source: Edward Weston on photography
“The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.”
Source: The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting
“The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in.”
“The photograph of Ibrahim, Eric Mason and Eric's grandson was in a special file Ibrahim kept at home. A file filled with mementos, not too many, all reminding Ibrahim why he loved his job. The file is the only one on Ibrahim's shelves that isn't kept in strict alphabetical order. Because sometimes you had to remember that life wasn't always arranged in alphabetical order, however much you would like it to be.”
Source: The Man Who Died Twice
“The photograph of my brother that is in this album shows a young man, beautiful and perfect in the way of young people, for young people are always perfect and beautiful until they are not, until the moment they just are not.”
“The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.”
Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man
“The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed”
“The photograph suggests that our image of reality is made up of images. It makes explicit the domination of mediation.”
Source: Crisis of the real: writings on photography, 1974-1989
“The photograph that discovers and uncovers the world is harder to simulate than an image that simply illustrates one's ideas about it.”
Source: In our own image: the coming revolution in photography : how computer technology is changing our view of the world
“The photograph, then, becomes a representation of a representation of a disease that represents. In other words, in order to produce the most perfect images of hysteria, the hysteric – a woman whose illness simulates the symptoms of other diseases – was transformed, through hypnosis, into an artificial hysteric who perfectly simulated the simulations of hysteria. The medical photograph becomes a copy of a copy of a copy, a representation so far removed from the original that all duplicitous traits, were easily erased, leaving the deranged and chaotic nature of the original far behind. The photograph succeeded in turning the hysteric into a wholly artificial being, literally a flat, framed, unmoving image.”
Source: The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France
“The photograph, after all, is just a photograph. Words will determine its meaning and status.”
Source: Time pieces: photographs, writing, and memory
“The photograph, now they are detached from their original surroundings, they are involved in a close world in which they only relate to each other: all the rest of 'reality' has vanished. This allows us to see those elements from a new point of view and perhaps to reach a better understanding.”
“The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith.”
“The photograph... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something.”
“The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.”
“The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs.”
“The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates.”
Source: On photography
“The photographer can arrange his picture just as the painter does, only sometimes he must go about it in a different way.”
“The photographer can't create a picture, he only can compose.”
“The photographer discovers himself/herself being photographed and we can guess he is uncomfortable. Unsuccessfully he/she tries to recompose his posture and to look like a photographer taking photos. But no, he is and continues to be a spectator. The momentous fact of being photographed leads him to becoming an actor. And, as always, actors must assume a role, which is only an elegant way of avoiding to say they must choose sides, choose a faction, take an option.”
“The photographer had a camera strapped around one leg, attached to a cable that ran up his trouser leg and into a pocket. He could squeeze a bulb in his pocket to take one picture which would be unnoticed in the glare of sparks and the horror generated by the chair.”
Source: The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
“The photographer has almost as much control over his subject matter as a painter. He can control light and shade, form and space, pattern and texture, motion and mood, everything except composition.”
“The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.”
“The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the object itself decomposes and disappears. Hence there's a moment in which we grasp reality, but then the moment passes. This was in part the meaning of Blow-Up.”
“The photographer in my head says: Give me peace. Flash. Give me release. Flash.”
Source: Invisible Monsters: A Novel
“The photographer is a manipulator of light; photography is a manipulation of light.”
Source: Moholy-Nagy, photographs and photograms
“The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. Adept of the joys of watching, connoisseur of empathy, the flâneur finds the world 'picturesque.”
Source: On photography
“The photographer is filled with doubt. Nothing will soothe him.”
“The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.”
Source: The Berenice Abbott portfolios
“The photographer must be absorbent - like a blotter, allow himself to be permeated by the poetic moment... His technique should be like an animal function... he should act automatically.”
“The photographer must bear the responsibility for his work and its effect …[for] photographic journalism, because of its tremendous audience reached by publications using it, has more influence on public thinking than any other branch of photography.”
“The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time.”