Cameras Quote by Barbara Ess

Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.

— Susan Sontag

Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of…

— Susan Sontag

I try to photograph what can't be photographed - psychological or subjective reality, which seems more real than physical or consensual reality.

— Barbara Ess

The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't…

— Erica Jong

A photograph is what it appears to be. Already far from 'reality' because of its silence, lack of movement, two-dimensional ity and isolation from…

— Richard Kalvar

A photographer doesn't just copy reality, but communicates to others what he or she experiences.

— Walter Rosenblum

The camera is a fluid way of encountering that other reality

— Jerry Uelsmann

The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself

— Ai Weiwei

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

— Alfred Stieglitz

Reality is what one does not perceive when one perceives it.

— Niklas Luhmann

So-called 'realist' photography does not capture the 'what is.' Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for…

— Jean Baudrillard

Photographs and reality are just night and day. In reality, the information is all there. A photograph is just kind of a hint.

— Nelson Shanks