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> [Photographs offer more than decisive moments. They are not alone, they add and subtract and change with time. They are metaphors for our lives... Even a static photograph can change in the blink of a day or decade.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmundo-desnoes/photographs-offer-more-than-decisive-moments-they-are-not-alone-they/)

[Edmundo Desnoes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmundo-desnoes/)

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## Other authors on Decisive moments

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henri-cartierbresson-41329.jpg) Henri Cartier-Bresson 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/decisive-moments/henri-cartier-bresson/)

## More by Edmundo Desnoes

> [Weston's sensual texture or Cartier-Bresson's implacable composition are apt to close over themselves, attaining the perfection of a certain sensual and harmonious bliss. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmundo-desnoes/weston-s-sensual-texture-or-cartier-bresson-s-implacable-composition/)

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> [Photographs offer more than decisive moments. They are not alone, they add and subtract and change with time. They are metaphors for our lives...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmundo-desnoes/photographs-offer-more-than-decisive-moments-they-are-not-alone-they/)

[Edmundo Desnoes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmundo-desnoes/)

> [Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working behind the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmundo-desnoes/photography-has-fooled-the-world-there-s-no-more-convincing-fraud-its/)

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> [Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmundo-desnoes/images-the-visual-power-of-present-day-capitalism-like-the-ritual/)

[Edmundo Desnoes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmundo-desnoes/)

> [...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmundo-desnoes/photography-can-lie-as-convincingly-as-literature-or-painting-the/)

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> [Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmundo-desnoes/photographs-are-detonators-they-explode-in-us-we-are-the-gaze-as-well/)

[Edmundo Desnoes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmundo-desnoes/)

> [The richness of our contemporary visual world must be seen as a danger. It is an overwhelming and oppressive world. A world that manifests…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmundo-desnoes/the-richness-of-our-contemporary-visual-world-must-be-seen-as-a/)

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> [The Latin American photographer has the possibility, and the means, for naming the things of our world, for demonstrating that there is another kind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmundo-desnoes/the-latin-american-photographer-has-the-possibility-and-the-means-for/)

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