He who writes must master the rules of grammar. He who shoots photographs needs only to follow the instructions as given by the camera… This leads to the paradox that the more people shoot photographs, the less they are capable… — Vilem Flusser Copy Share Image
Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers... have not understood information. What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better they do… — Vilém Flusser Copy Share Image
“Custom is a shroud that conceals everything. Not without first encountering the uncustomary will we be able to recognize what is customary and, more… — Vilém Flusser Copy Share Image
...there is no everyday activity which does not aspire to be photographed, filmed or videotaped. For there is a general desire to be endlessly… — Vilem Flusser Copy Share Image
“Changing the question 'free from what?' into 'free for what?'; this change that occurs when freedom has been achieved has accompanied me on my… — Vilém Flusser Copy Share Image
“All incoming bits of information have, simultaneously, a tentacular, optic, and sexual dimension. Its world is not doubtful, but surprising; vampyroteuthic thinking is an… — Vilém Flusser Copy Share Image
Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols. — Vilem Flusser Copy Share Image
The act of photography is like going on a hunt in which photographer and camera merge into one indivisible function. This is a hunt… — Vilem Flusser Copy Share Image
He who writes must master the rules of grammar. He who shoots photographs needs only to follow the instructions as given by the camera…… — Vilem Flusser Copy Share Image
Photographers encode their concepts as photographic images so as to give others information, so as to produce models for them and thereby to become… — Vilem Flusser 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 therefore images… — Vilém Flusser Copy Share Image
With every (informative) photograph, the photographic program becomes poorer by one possibility while the photographic universe becomes richer by one realization. — Vilem Flusser Copy Share Image
“The task of a philosophy of photography is to reflect upon this possibility of freedom - and thus its significance - in a world… — Vilém Flusser Copy Share Image
