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“Photography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand.”

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Author:John Paul Caponigro

“The French have a different take on photography than Americans do. They consider photography to be absolutely parallel to literature. That often makes for a deeper perception of the work.”

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Author:Ralph Gibson

“I'm not satirical in a traditional way. What I do is more about creating caricatures and cartoons. I am commentating on the nature of how we live through photography, and how you can twist an angle to create a different perception of a person.”

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Author:Alison Jackson

“A work can do many things at once, and it doesn't have to be just about the world, it could also be about photography, it could be about perception, it could be an exploration of the medium. It could be a document, it could be a visual poetry, and it could be a formal exploration all at the same time.”

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Author:Stephen Shore

“If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.”

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Author:Umberto Eco

“Photography is such an important instrument in the education of our feelings and perception because of its duality. Photography represents the world we know, and suggests a world beyond what we can see. Creativity is the gap between perception and knowledge.”

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Book:Emmet Gowin: aerial photographs

Source: Emmet Gowin: aerial photographs

“[I]n general, my work is less about expanding the possibilities of photography than about re-investing it with a truer perception of things by returning to a simple method, one that photography had from the beginning of its existence.”

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Author:Thomas Struth

“Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.”

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Book:Singular images

Source: Singular images

“While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.”

“In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.”

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Author:Chuck Close

“There are rules about perception, but not about photography.”

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Author:Jay Maisel

“A photographer's art is more in his perceptions than his execution. In a painter, I think the perception is only the first step, and then you have a kind of hard road of execution.”

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Author:Jay Maisel