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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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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

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The eye should learn to listen before it looks. ↗

— Robert Frank

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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

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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

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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

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

— Elliott Erwitt

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When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; it means that they do not (i)emerge(i), do not (i)leave(i): they are anesthetized and fastened down, like butterflies. ↗

— Roland Barthes

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Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location. ↗

— Joe McNally

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