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“Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images.”

Photography Mirrors Mask Primitive Bourgeois Exorcism

Book:Fotografien

Source: Fotografien

“Art can no longer be merely a mirror, it must act as the organizer of the people's consciousness... No form of representation is so readily comprehensible to the masses as photography.”

People Art Form Consciousness Photography Mass Mirrors Representation Organizer

Author:El Lissitzky

“Pure photography allows us to create portraits which render their subjects with absolute truth, truth both physical and psychological. That is the principal which provided my starting point, once I had said to myself that if we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times in which those subjects live.”

Ifs Said Subjects Effects Pure Photography Absolutes Mirrors Starting Psychological Principal Portraits Starting Point Absolute Truth

Author:August Sander

“Fashion is the opposite of the real, its worst enemy. Fashion photography is subversive; it makes you believe everything is true, whereas this could not be more false. It is the opposite of a mirror, a deformation.”

Believe Real Enemy Worst Fashion Photography Opposites Mirrors Subversive Worst Enemy Fashion Photography

Author:Patrick Demarchelier

“To me photography can be simultaneously a record and a mirror or window of self-expression.”

Self Records Expression Photography Window Mirrors Self Expression

Author:Eikoh Hosoe

“Photography is the mirror, more faithful than any actual mirror, in which we witness at every age, our own aging. The actual mirror accompanies us through time, thoughtfully and treacherously; it changes with us, so that we appear not to change.”

Age Photography Mirrors Aging Witness Faithful Accompany Rough Times Accompany Us

Author:Christian Metz

“I believe that the (distorting) mirror which is photography holds an intrinsic, even elemental, relation to writing.”

Writing Believe I Believe Photography Relation Mirrors Elementals

Author:Tod Papageorge

“A photograph is a mirror; mostly it reflects the prejudices of the viewer.”

Photography Prejudice Mirrors Photograph Viewers

Author:Bill Jay

“The very idea of photography is as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in the 19th century, "it's a mirror with a memory."”

Said Ideas Memories Century Photography Mirrors 19th Century Holmes

Author:Errol Morris

“Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?”

Humans Art Faces Photography Mirrors Photographer Painter Human Faces

Author:Pablo Picasso

“It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.”

Doe Art Used Artist Photography Mirrors Photographer Aids Upset Historian Lenses Hiv

Author:Chuck Close

“Photographers can either look out the window at the world or they can look in the mirror.”

World Looks Photography Window Mirrors Photographer

Author:David Alan Harvey

“The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.”

Firsts Humans Soul Body Photography Mirrors Human Body

Author:Auguste Rodin

“To me photography can be simultaneously both a record and a mirror or window of self-expression the camera is generally assumed to be unable to depict that which is not visible to the eye and yet, the photographer who wields it well can depict what lies unseen in his memory.”

Wells Self Eye Lying Memories Records Expression Photography Window Mirrors Cameras Photographer Visible Unseen Self Expression

Author:Eikoh Hosoe