Photograph Quotes · Page 29

One of the marks of our world is perhaps this reversal: we live according to a generalized image-repertoire. Consider the United Sates,…

— Roland Barthes

A very faithful drawing may actually tell us more about the model but despite the promptings of our critical intelligence it will…

— Andre Bazin

The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and…

— Paul Strand

It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.

— Marshall McLuhan

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

— Imogen Cunningham

If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.

— Garry Winogrand

I don't photograph anyone if I can't meet with them first because if I don't do that, then they're just going to…

— Carol Friedman

I don't think that there's anything that we shouldn't be allowed to photograph, really, unless there's something that's really deeply harmful to…

— Brady Corbet

Some of my enthusiasm for the [found] photograph was based on the fact that there was some residual illusion of reality in…

— Robert Heinecken

We are judged, not by the photographs we take, but by the photographs we show.

— Ted Grant

When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet…

— Lisa Kristine

Much like photographs, I also love the idea that ghosts are memories frozen in time. We can be haunted by both just…

— Ed Gass-Donnelly

I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in…

— Garry Winogrand

My urge to photograph is activated by an almost biological instinct for preservation from disorder. The camera is a mechanical apparatus that…

— Arthur Tress

And the most interesting natural structure? A giant, two-thousand-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly…

— Douglas Adams

An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more…

— Dieter Roth

Liberman said to me, 'I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don't like it. They say…

— Irving Penn

The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon…

— Edward Weston

If you look at a photograph, and you think, 'My isn't that a beautiful photograph,' and you go on to the next…

— Duane Michals

I saw a man walk into my camera viewfinder from the left. He took a pistol out of his holster and raised…

— Eddie Adams

The relationship I have with my mother now, and photographing her in front of the grave, it opens up discussions, and dealings…

— Jurgen Teller

The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

— Susan Sontag

I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located…

— W. G. Sebald

I'm very moved by the fact that people are drawn into the pictures and that they do bring their own history and…

— Gregory Crewdson