We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world. That was a myth from the very beginning. — A. D. Coleman Copy Share Image
Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it. — A. D. Coleman Copy Share Image
... the battle for the acceptance of photography as Art was not only counter-productive but counter-revolutionary. The most important photography is most emphatically not Art. — A. D. Coleman Copy Share Image
It is no coincidence that one cardinal rule in brainwashing is to remove from the victim all photographs of himself and people he has… — A. D. Coleman Copy Share Image
What a photograph shows us is how a particular thing could be seen, or could be made to look - at a specific moment,… — A. D. Coleman Copy Share Image
The past is always with us, in the form of our photographs, which we feel as we might a rosary, wearing them smooth with… — A. D. Coleman Copy Share Image
Any photographer worth his/her salt - that is, any photographer of professional caliber, in control of the craft, regardless of imagistic bent - can… — A. D. Coleman Copy Share Image
We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world. That was… — A. D. Coleman Copy Share Image
Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what… — A. D. Coleman Copy Share Image