Edmundo Desnoes

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…

— Edmundo Desnoes

Photographs offer more than decisive moments. They are not alone, they add and subtract and change with time. They are metaphors for…

— Edmundo Desnoes

Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working…

— Edmundo Desnoes

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

...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.

— Edmundo Desnoes

Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed.

— Edmundo Desnoes

The richness of our contemporary visual world must be seen as a danger. It is an overwhelming and oppressive world. A world…

— Edmundo Desnoes

The Latin American photographer has the possibility, and the means, for naming the things of our world, for demonstrating that there is…

— Edmundo Desnoes