Has beens Quote by Christian Metz

I have been photographed to death

— Marlene Dietrich

Photography is linked with death in many different ways. The most immediate and explicit is the social practice of keeping photographs in memory of…

— Christian Metz

I had never seen a real live dead person.

— Jacqueline Kelly

The dead person is not truly dead until the last person who rememebers them dies.

— Sarah Monette

“Photographs don’t discriminate between the living and the dead. In the fragments of time and shards of light that compose them, everyone is equal.…

— Robert Goddard

The camera itself, the photograph itself, calls up death.

— Nobuyoshi Araki

It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed.

— Sebastiao Salgado

For the photograph's immobility is somehow the result of a perverse confusion between two concepts: the Real and the Live: by attesting that the…

— Roland Barthes

The photograph annihilates the person.

— Siegfried Kracauer

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she…

— Stanislav Grof

No one is ever really dead unless we find the body.

— Julia Barr

All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents…

— Roland Barthes