“What does it tell you that applications for guns since the shooting are up 41 percent in Colorado, and that our cameras found about 50 people in line at one gun shop yesterday outside Denver?” PeopleDoeFoundLinesPercentGunCamerasYesterdayShootingShopsApplicationColoradoDenver Author:Brian Williams
“Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.” GunMurderCamerasPhotographAppropriateFrightenedSubliminal Author:Susan Sontag
“I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera.” MenGivingYoungWishGiving UpGunCamerasYoung ManFavourVegetarianismAdventurous Author:Jawaharlal Nehru
“You have a 45mm automatic pistol on your lap, and I have a 35mm camera on my lap, and my weapon is just as powerful as yours. (To Black Panther militant Eldridge Cleaver)” BlackPowerfulPhotographyWeaponsGunCamerasAfrican AmericanLapMilitantPistolsHandgunsPanthersCameramanBlack PantherCleaver Author:Gordon Parks
“If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!” IfsGunCamerasSpeedBlockHigh SpeedGelatinBallistics Author:Nathan Myhrvold
“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.” PeopleTurnsSeeingObjectsGunMurderCamerasPhotographAppropriateFrightenedPossessedSubliminal Book:On photography Source: On photography