“We know the original relation of the theater and the cult of the Dead: the first actors separated themselves from the community… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“A recurrent question about photography is how much self expression it allows the photographer. There are two standard positions, each corresponding to… — Clive Scott Copy Share Image
“I had not then acquired the technique that I flatter myself now enables me to deal competently with the works of modern… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The photograph not only stops time, Benjamin argues, but also works to project the future out of the past. The photograph is… — Shawn Michelle Smith Copy Share Image
“We quickly became friends with other art faculty members such as the ceramist Jim Leedy and his wife Jean and art historian/artist… — Mallory M. O'Connor Copy Share Image
“The photographer was installed in the back of an inconspicurous dry-goods store in the poorer neighbourhood of Warsaw. He seemed to know… — Jan Karski Copy Share Image
“I think it was during this journey that the image became detached, removed from all the rest. It might have existed, a… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“My studio team and I approached the creation of this series with enthusiasm, wit, sincerity and sometimes more than a dash of… — Waswo X Waswo Copy Share Image
“At the top, I put the camera's viewfinder to my eye and slowly turned, the way my grandmother had taught me. From… — Mary Simses Copy Share Image
“After the attack, it was again the image of the country, rather than the well-being of those who had been caught up… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“That we are not totally transformed, that we can turn away, turn the page, switch the channel, does not impugn the ethical… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Degas, more than any other Realist, looked upon the photograph not merely as a means of documentation, but rather as an inspiration:… — Linda Nochlin Copy Share Image
“Put that thing down, girl. Don't you know it steals part of your soul, that little mechanical masterpiece you hold so frivolously?… — Shannon Noelle Long Copy Share Image
“As he heard a brief click, Ralf thought about what had happened in that moment which had already passed. For just one… — Alex Christofi Copy Share Image
“The camera was a hand-held auxiliary of wanting-to-know. It had more than information and accuracy to teach me. I learned in the… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“We're so distracted, we're missing out own lives. The parent who records his kid's dance recital or first steps or graduation is… — Dave Bruno Copy Share Image
“Recall our discussion of the pendulum. Its position at a given instant does not fix its subsequent behavior. Suppose a photograph shows… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“Grammar is a piano I play by ear, since I seem to have been out of school the year the rules were… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“I was in Sarasota, Florida, on a spring-break trip with my friends Bruce and Karen Moore. Bruce and I were waiting on… — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
“I had long since managed a degree of detachment when dealing with photographs from homicide cases. They no longer upset me as… — Ann Rule Copy Share Image
“So it was with the various eccentrics she discovered in the next years. Some she went home with, some she didn't; some… — Patricia Bosworth Copy Share Image
“The photograph is in my hand. It is the photograph of a man and a woman. They are at an amusement park,… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“I have a print - you can buy them at the Victoria and Albert Museum - of a photograph of the village… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“From the WIP, Behind The Fan... The two women flipped through the pictures as morbid curiosity took hold. The photos all signed… — Caroline Walken Copy Share Image
“Here,” he says, removing my camera from its dry home and handing it to me to turn on. “I want to take… — Kristin Rae Copy Share Image
“Evan slung his arm over my shoulder. “That’s my mom and dad,” he pointed to a couple approaching us as families trickled… — Micalea Smeltzer Copy Share Image
“But the very question of whether photography is or is not an art is essentially a misleading one. Although photography generates works… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Images are mediations between the world and human beings. Human beings 'ex-ist', i.e. the world is not immediately accessible to them and… — Vilém Flusser Copy Share Image
“Today, 18 out of 45 customers entering a restaurant ask whether they can sit somewhere else. From that point on, their digital… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
“I am not trying to say that a passport photo of himself can cure a gloomy man of a gloom for which… — Günter Grass Copy Share Image
“This gesture is one of the motifs of modernity's turn against the principle of imitating nature, that is to say, imitating predefined… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“Another unary photograph is the pornographic photograph (I am not saying the erotic photograph: the erotic is a pornographic that has been… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“We drove 22 miles into the country around Farmington. There were meadows and apple orchards. White fences trailed through the rolling fields.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Most of Arbus's work lies within the Warhol aesthetic, that is, defines itself in relation to the twin poles of boringness and… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Known as “Leni,” Helene Bertha Amalie Riefenstahl was born on August 22, 1902. During the Third Reich she was known throughout Germany… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
“Weston, having been born in Chicago, was raised with typical, well-grounded, mid-western values. On his 16th birthday, his father gave him a… — Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image