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“Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.”

Knows Stuff Records Tradition Gold England Photograph Awards Bathroom

Author:Adele

“Photographs are never records of the way things are; they're records of the way things were.”

Way Records Photographer Photograph

Author:John Paul Caponigro

“All photographs are about light. The great majority of photographs record light as a way of describing objects in space. A few photographs are less about objects and more about the space that contains them. Still fewer photographs are about light itself.”

Way Stills Light Space Records Objects Majority Photographer Photograph Fewer Describing

Author:John Paul Caponigro

“The way in which the photograph records experience is also different from the way of language. Language makes sense only when it is presented as a sequence of propositions. Meaning is distorted when a word or sentence is, as we say, taken out of context; when a reader or listener is deprived of what was said before, and after. But there is no such thing as a photograph taken out of context, for a photograph does not require one. In fact, the point of photography is to isolate images from context, so as to make them visible in a different way.”

Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“It's never as good the second time. Things don't get better. You can't always go back, a lot of it has been erased. The photograph is a record of it having existed.”

Has Beens Records Photography Photograph Get Better

Author:George A Tice

“Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.”

Bits Differences Records Seeing Photography Cameras Photographer Photograph Camera And Photography Leica

Author:Ernst Haas

“It would be very curious to record by means of photographs, not the stage of the picture, but its metamorphoses. Perhaps one would perceive the path taken by the mind in order to put its dreams into a concrete form. But what is really very curious is to observe that fundamentally the picture does not change, that despite appearances the initial vision remains almost intact.”

Mind Mean Doe Dream Would Be Form Order Vision Path Taken Records Stage Remains Photograph Appearance Despite Curious Perceive Concrete Initials Metamorphosis

Author:Pablo Picasso

“The fact is that the camera is literal if anything, which gives it something in common with a thermometer... Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true beauty. There is sleight of hand in photography... you make the viewer think he's seeing everything while at the same time you make him realize he's not. I try to make my pictures seem reasonable and then, at the last minute, pull the rug from beneath the viewer's feet, very gently so there's a little thrill.”

“Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true beauty.”

Reality Records Photograph Tension True Beauty Pictorial Thermometers

Book:Pictures under discussion

Source: Pictures under discussion

“It seems to me that before the photograph can exist as art it must, by its very nature choose whether it is to be a record or a testimony.”

Art Seems Records Photograph Testimony

Author:Yukio Mishima

“I'm deeply interested in the photograph as a record of an encounter and enjoy putting myself in a timeline of image-makers, alongside other travelers, such as anthropologists, colonists, missionaries, even tourists. I do that to emphasize subjectivity, rather than privilege any single perspective - I see myself as only one of many storytellers.”

Enjoy Records Perspective Photograph Privilege Encounters Makers Traveler Storyteller Tourists Subjectivity Anthropologists Timelines Colonists

Author:Susan Meiselas

“Photography Cannot Record Abstract Ideas (Title of a 16x20 inch photograph depicting an index card on which that phrase is handwritten.)”

Ideas Records Photography Photograph Cards Titles Phrases Abstract Inches

Author:Mel Bochner

“A [spatial, temporal] work had only to be exhibited in a gallery and then written about and reproduced as a photograph in an art magazine. Then this record of the no longer extant installation, along with accretions of information after the fact, became the basis for its fame, and to a large extent its economic value.”

Art Facts Values Records Written Economic Information Fame Bases Photograph Magazines Gallery Spatial Installation Economic Value

Author:Dan Graham

“...it is pretentious for photographers to believe that their pictures alone change things. If they did, we wouldn't be besieged by war, by incidents of genocide, by hunger. A more realistic assessment of photography's value is to point out that it is illustrative of what's going on, that it provides a record of history, that photographs can prompt dialogue.”

Ifs Believe War Values Records Photography Photographer Photograph Hunger Dialogue Realistic Genocide Incidents Assessment Pretentious Prompts

Author:Eugene Richards

“A photograph records both the thing in front of the camera and the conditions of its making... A photograph is also a document of the state of mind of the photographer. And if you were to extend the idea of the set-up photograph beyond just physically setting up the picture, I would argue that the photographer wills the picture into being.”

Ifs Mind Ideas States Records Conditions Fronts Cameras Photographer Photograph Arguing Setting Settings State Of Mind Documents

Author:James Welling

“For me, what was important was to record everything I saw around me, and to do this as methodically as possible. In these circumstances a good photograph is a picture that comes as close as possible to reality. But the camera never manages to record what your eyes see, or what you feel at the moment. The camera always creates a new reality.”

Feels Important Moments Reality Eye Records Saws Circumstances Cameras Photograph Manage

Book:Let there be light: the Rwanda Project 1994-1998

Source: Let there be light: the Rwanda Project 1994-1998

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