“As actors, we need public relations to campaign for our next possible role, and any media promoting our work seems positive in nature; but whether in theater or on a film set, a bad unprofessional photograph at the wrong angle may not be as flattering to some actors, and may be considered a harmful exposure.” NeedsMaySeemsFilmNextActorsRolesMediaRelationTheaterPhotographCampaignsAngleExposurePromotingFlatteringPublic RelationsFilm Set Author:Carson Grant
“Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic awareness and promotes emotional detachment.” WorldGivingUnderstandingSeeingAwarenessEmotionalIllusionRelationPhotographDespiteInvitesAestheticDetachment Book:On photography Source: On photography
“[Photography] allows me to accede to an infra-knowledge; it supplies me with a collection of partial objects and can flatter a certain fetishism of mine: for this 'me' which like knowledge, which nourishes a kind of amorous preference for it. In the same way, I like certain biographical features which, in a writer's life, delight me as much as certain photographs; I have called these features 'biographemes'; Photography has the same relation to History that the biographeme has to biography.” WayKindCertainObjectsMinesPhotographyRelationPhotographDelightFeaturesCollectionsBiographiesPreferenceSuppliesAmorous Author:Roland Barthes
“When students scoff at the idea of a magical relation between a picture and what it represents, ask them to take a photograph of their mother and cut out the eyes.” IdeasEyeMotherAsksCuttingStudentsRelationPhotograph Book:What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images Source: What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images
“The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually achieve?” DoePoliticalAchieveIdentityRelationPhotographPertinent Author:Victor Burgin
“Unlike the marks of a painting, the photo seems to organize its 'opinions' in relation to the world; even when the photographs have clearly been manipulated, the 'opinions' seem to have all the more force, with the suggested 'participation of the world' articulating that 'opinion' as a difference.” WorldSeemsForceDifferencesOpinionPaintingMarkRelationPhotographOrganizeParticipationArticulating Author:Joseph Kosuth
“We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman.” PeopleMenNeedsHas BeensWould BeFacesImagineExampleObjectsColorWallPhotographyRelationRegardPhotographLandscapeProportionInhuman Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein
“I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a second. It's very instinctive. What you do is a fraction of a second, it's there and it's not there. But in this fraction of a second comes your past, comes your future, comes your relation with people, comes your ideology, comes your hate, comes your love - all together in this fraction of a second, it materializes there.” PeopleWayTogetherPastHateSpacePhotographyRelationCamerasPhotographerPhotographIdeologyOur FutureOur PastYour FutureYour PastFractions Author:Sebastiao Salgado
“To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like power.” WorldFeelsMeanCertainPhotographyRelationPhotographOneselfAppropriate Book:On photography Source: On photography