Photography Quotes by James Agee

8 Photography quotes by James Agee

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Agee’s reflective, prose‑like observations on images are captured in eight brief lines, offering a quick glimpse of his thoughtful perspective.

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The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time.

James Agee

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It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream,…

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The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to…

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It is clear enough by now to most people that the camera never lies is a foolish saying. Yet it is doubtful…

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“Who are you who will read these words and study these photographs, and through what cause, by what chance, and for what…

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As small, quick, foolproof cameras became generally available, moreover, the camera has been used so much and so flabbily by so many…

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It is probably well on the conservative side to estimate that during the past ten to fifteen years the camera has destroyed…

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The camera is just a machine, which records with impressive and as a rule very cruel faithfulness.

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“The passion for vengeance is a terrifyingly strong one, very easily and probably inevitably wrought up by such evidence [of atrocities], even at our…

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It's kind of a test, Mary, and it's the only kind that amounts to anything. When something rotten like this happens, then you have…

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The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

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“God is not here, Hannah said to herself; and made a small cross upon her breastbone, against her blasphemy.”

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Well, now, some people learn a little quicker than others. It's nice to learn fast but it's nice to take your time too.

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Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by…

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This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.

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You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any…

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He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the track's end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability…

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