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 camera. They are not reality, they form part of the language of culture. — Edmundo Desnoes Copy Share Image
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… — Edmundo Desnoes Copy Share Image
Photographs offer more than decisive moments. They are not alone, they add and subtract and change with time. They are metaphors for our lives...… — Edmundo Desnoes Copy Share Image
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… — Edmundo Desnoes Copy Share Image
Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man. — Edmundo Desnoes Copy Share Image
...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context. — Edmundo Desnoes Copy Share Image
Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed. — Edmundo Desnoes Copy Share Image
The richness of our contemporary visual world must be seen as a danger. It is an overwhelming and oppressive world. A world that manifests… — Edmundo Desnoes Copy Share Image
The Latin American photographer has the possibility, and the means, for naming the things of our world, for demonstrating that there is another kind… — Edmundo Desnoes Copy Share Image
