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A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.


Salman Rushdie


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Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.


Alfred Stieglitz


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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.


Susan Sontag


#discloses #painter #photographer

Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes. 'The necessary condition for an image is sight,'Janouch told Kafka; and Kafka smiled and replied: 'We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.


Roland Barthes


#photography

The eye should learn to listen before it looks.


Robert Frank


#photography #photography

All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.


Susan Sontag


#time #photography

I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew moments-kind of like what makes up our lives-those slightly awkward, lovely moments.


Keith Carter


#love

I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it.


Lorrie Moore


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The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal.


John Dunning


#photography #reading #photography

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.


Elliott Erwitt


#photography #the-joy-of-photographing-people #photography






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