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Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths. ↗

— Eddie Adams

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Always seeing something, never seeing nothing, being photographer ↗

— Walter De Mulder

#seeing #photography

الصُور الجماعية المُعلَّقة على الجدار بها شخص مفقود ؛ . دائماً يتنازل عن مكانهِ لِيلتقط الصُورة ↗

— Nour Albawardi

#sadness #photography

People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they're doing, or how their hair looks. Nobody see the person holding the camera. ↗

— Erica O'Rourke

#camera #invisible #photo #photographer #photography

The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here; the duration of the transmission is insignificant; the photograph of the missing being, as Sontag says, will touch me like the delayed rays of a star. ↗

— Roland Barthes

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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer. ↗

— Dorothea Lange

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The Photograph is violent: not because it shows violent tings, but because on each occasion (i)it fills the sight by force(i), and because in it nothing can be refused or transformed (that we can sometimes call it mild does not contradict its violence: many say that sugar is mild, but to me sugar is violent, and I call it so). ↗

— Roland Barthes

#violence #photography

In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The 'anything whatever' then becomes the sophisticated acme of value. ↗

— Roland Barthes

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A photograph of a woman crying tells me nothing about grief. Or a photograph of a woman ecstatic tells me nothing about ecstasy. What is the nature of these emotions? The problem with photography is that it only deals with appearances. ↗

— Duane Michals

#photography #surfaces #nature

For the photograph's immobility is somehow the result of a perverse confusion between two concepts: the Real and the Live: by attesting that the object has been real, the photograph surreptitiously induces belief that it is alive, because of that delusion which makes us attribute to Reality an absolute superior, somehow eternal value; but by shifting this reality to the past ('this-has-been'), the photograph suggests that it is already dead. ↗

— Roland Barthes

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