“I leaned right over to kiss your stoney book A little jealous of the ships with whom you flirt A billion lovers with their cameras Snap to look and in my fantasy I sail beneath your skirt” LooksLittlesBookFantasyLoversKissingCamerasBillionsShipsJealousSailFlirtingSnapsSkirts Author:Andy Partridge
“The idea that the snapshot would be thought of as a cult or movement is very tiresome to me and, I'm sure, confusing to others. It's a swell word I've always liked. It probably came about because it describes a basic fact of photography. In a snap, or small portion of time, all that the camera can consume in breadth and bite and light is rendered in astonishing detail: all the leaves on a tree, as well as the tree itself and all its surroundings.” WellsIdeasFactsLightWould BeTreeMovementPhotographyCamerasDetailsBitesPortionsCultConfusingSurroundingsAstonishingSnapsBreadthSnapshotsTiresome Author:Lee Friedlander
“Anybody doesn't like these pitchers don't like potry, see? Anybody don't like potry go home see television shots of big hatted cowboys being tolerated by kind horses. Robert Frank, Swiss, unobtrusive, nice, with that little camera that he raises and snaps with one hand he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the poets of the world. To Robert Frank I now give this message: You got eyes.” WorldGivingKindLittlesHomeHandsBigsEyeAmericaFilmNiceTelevisionPoetMessagesShotsHorseCamerasRaisesFrankCowboyPitcherSnapsSwiss Author:Jack Kerouac
“It's pretty amazing to see a guy, while steering at the wheel, suddenly raise his little 300 dollar German camera with one hand and snap something that's on the move in front of him, and through an unwashed windshield at that. (On the road with Robert Frank, 1958)” LittlesHandsMovingGuyFrontsCamerasRaisesDollarsWheelsFrankSnapsSteering Author:Jack Kerouac
“Philologically, the word Kodak is as meaningless as a child's first goo. Terse, abrupt to the point of rudeness, literally bitten off by firm and unyielding consonants at both ends, it snaps like a camera shutter in your face. What more would one ask. (Explaining why he named his company Kodak.)” FirstsChildrenEndsFacesAsksCompanyCamerasFirmYour FaceMeaninglessExplainingSnapsRudenessShuttersUnyieldingConsonantsKodak Author:George Eastman
“Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers... have not understood information. What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better they do it, the more they prove the victory of the camera over the human being.” HumansMemoriesHuman BeingsInformationProduceVictoryProveUnderstoodCamerasPhotographerDocumentariesSnaps Book:Towards a Philosophy of Photography Source: Towards a Philosophy of Photography
“We all know the sound a camera makes when it snaps a picture. Even some of the digitals do it for nostalgia’s sake.” KnowsSoundCamerasSakeNostalgiaSnaps Book:Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition Source: Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition