Cameras Quote by Alfred Stieglitz

A photographer who wants to see, a photographer who wants to make fine images, must recognize the value in the familiar.

— Freeman Patterson

“Before familiarity can turn into awareness the familiar must be stripped of its inconspicuousness; we must give up assuming that the object in question…

— Bertold Brecht

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their…

— Toni Morrison

By close-ups of the things around us, by focusing on hidden details of familiar objects, by exploring commonplace milieus under the ingenious guidance of…

— Walter Benjamin

The familiar can feel good - especially with so much uncertainty when we turn on the news. But it doesn't uplift us, challenge us,…

— Eric Metaxas

Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into…

— Dorothea Lange

“It is not merely the feeling that something is familiar. It is one step beyond that. It is something new, challenging, or surprising that…

— Derek Thompson

If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.

— John Berger

The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.

— Susan Sontag

“We become so used to the familiar that we begin to doubt the unfamiliar, until our eyes are opened and we see .”

— Ted Dekker

To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore,…

— Susan Sontag

Photography is thus brought within reach of every human being who desires to preserve a record of what he sees… and enables the fortunate…

— George Eastman