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“That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood.”

Reality Photography Understood Portions

Author:Robert Breault

“Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. Or they enlarge a reality that is felt to be shrunk, hollowed out, perishable, remote. One can't possess reality, one can possess (and be possessed by) images.”

Way Stills Reality Felt Photography Understood Photograph Possessed Inaccessible Recalcitrant

Book:A Susan Sontag reader

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“I started photography more or less by accident when I was already 27. I was taken on as an assistant by a photographer who was a friend of a friend and I very quickly understood the potential of expression in photography.”

Taken Expression Photography Understood Photographer Accidents Assistants

Author:Peter Lindbergh

“A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.”

Art Photography Understood Photographer Few Words

Author:Ernst Haas

“Photography was not invented to serve a clearly understood function. There was in fact widespread uncertainty, even among its inventors, as to what it might be good for.”

Facts Might Photography Understood Function Be Good Uncertainty Inventor

Author:John Szarkowski

“Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.”

World Language Understanding Photography Understood Photographer Inspirational Photography

Author:Bruno Barbey

“Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.”

Firsts Seems Photography Understood Photographer Architecture

Book:Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

Source: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews