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
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 see textures, volumes, equilibrium - and reality, open and ragged, is lost and transcended. — Edmundo Desnoes Copy Share
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
