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A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
Irving PennPhotography, Photographic printing - 2
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this -- as in other ways -- they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
John BergerPhotography - 3
Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
Norman MailerPhotography - 4
If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.
Charles BaudelairePhotography - 5
In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
Susan SontagPhotography -
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It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph -- only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.
Susan SontagPhotography - 7
It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think -- and it is not at all monstrous in me to say that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningPhotography - 8
Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.
Wallace StevensPhotography - 9
No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
John RuskinPhotography - 10
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
Johann Wolfgang von GoethePhotography - 11
Photographing a cake can be art.
Irving PennPhotography, Art - 12
That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on; borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity.
Arthur SchopenhauerPhotography - 13
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.
George Bernard ShawPhotography - 14
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
Walter BenjaminPhotography - 15
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
John BergerPhotography -
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The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera -- and himself.
Daniel J. BoorstinPhotography - 17
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
Susan SontagPhotography - 18
The photographic image... is a message without a code.
Roland BarthesPhotography - 19
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
John BergerPhotography - 20
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.
Ludwig WittgensteinPhotography
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