Description Quote by Alec Soth

A photograph is a mirror; mostly it reflects the prejudices of the viewer.

— Bill Jay

“When do I see a photograph, when a reflection?”

— Philip K. Dick

Photographers can either look out the window at the world or they can look in the mirror.

— David Alan Harvey

The very idea of photography is as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in the 19th century, "it's a mirror with a memory."

— Errol Morris

What does a mirror look at?

— Frank Herbert

I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and is indeed…

— Lee Friedlander

The nineteenth-century way of looking at the photograph was as a mirror for the memory, and at that time the photographs almost looked like…

— Peter C Bunnell

The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need…

— Agnes Varda

Photography is the mirror, more faithful than any actual mirror, in which we witness at every age, our own aging. The actual mirror accompanies…

— Christian Metz

To me photography can be simultaneously both a record and a mirror or window of self-expression the camera is generally assumed to be unable…

— Eikoh Hosoe

We live in a house of mirrors and think we are looking out the windows.

— Frederick Salomon Perls

Sometimes the picture someone else paints of us is a more accurate portrayal than a reflection. What we see in the mirror is always…

— Megan Hart