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Photographer Quotes by Susan Sontag
- The two ideas are antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little, but insofar as it is…
- The photographer's intentions do not determine the meaning of a photograph, which will have its own career, blown by the whims and loyalties of the…
- Photographers are always imposing
- Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and…
- To us, the difference between the # photographer as an individual eye and the photographer as an objective recorder seems fundamental, the difference often regarded,…
- As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art.
- Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense…
- In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
- The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
- Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
- The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a…
More Photographer Quotes
- All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. — Richard Avedon
- It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can… — David Bailey
- Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love. — David Bailey
- I never set out to be a photographer. — David Bailey
- The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself… — David Bailey
- You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams
- There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. — Ansel Adams
- Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. — Ansel Adams
- A good photograph is knowing where to stand. — Ansel Adams
- There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. — Ansel Adams
- A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. — Ansel Adams