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Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed. — Susan Sontag
Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is… — John Berger
Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real. — Susan Sontag
A thing is not what you say it is or what you photograph it to be or what you paint it to be or what… — Wynn Bullock
I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject;… — Ansel Adams
In a photograph, if I am able to evoke not alone a feeling of the reality of the surface physical world but also a feeling… — Wynn Bullock
Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence. — Robert Adams
Photographers should make three or four prints from one negative and then crop them differently. When I was art director at Harper's Bazaar and at… — Alexey Brodovitch
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings.… — John Berger
We do not make photographs with our cameras. We make them with our minds, with our hearts, with our ideas. — Arnold Newman
While there are many who would say that the race to the moon was hardly green, many others have noted that the photographs brought back… — John F. Kennedy
There are numerous daytime and night time photographs and videotapes of clearly non-human spacecraft from all over the world; these films and videotapes have been… — Steven M. Greer
Among the hundreds of so-called "UFO reports" each year, a sizable fraction of those clearly observed by reputable witnesses remain unexplained-and difficult to explain in… — Richard Hall
I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death. — Joel-Peter Witkin
Cameras and lenses are simply tools to place our unique vision on film. Concentrate on equipment and you'll take technically good photographs. Concentrate on seeing the light's magic… — Unknown Author
Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t see. — Emmet Gowin
I seek what lies beneath surface beauty. What interests me are intimate human complexities - the darkness as well as the light. I cannot will… — Joyce Tenneson
Photographing these flowers has made me see the world differently. It was as if I had lifted a secret veil from a subject I had… — Joyce Tenneson
Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning… — Barbara Kruger
I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it’s something fantastic. They’re willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they want fantasy. Even… — Cindy Sherman
I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious, — Aidan Gillen
If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense… — Meg Tilly
History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal… — Bill Nye
I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now… — Garrett Hedlund
The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it's very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs… — Bjork

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