20th century Quote by Christopher Alexander

Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality... Buildings were judged…

— Christopher Alexander

In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built.

— Emilio Ambasz

Images can make realities out of people and struggles - the reality we give them. Images really matter.

— Trevor Paglen

For example, you now look at pictures from 1968, they are hugely misleading in terms of standing in as an absolute image of the…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their…

— Susan Sontag

The flood of photos sweeps away the dams of memory. Never before has a period known so little about itself. In the hands of…

— Siegfried Kracauer

Pictures can and do make a difference. Strong images of historical events do have an impact on society. They can help with change.

— Charles Moore

Photographs are still always depictions, it's just that for my generation the model for the photograph is probably not reality any more, but images…

— Thomas Ruff

Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.

— Walter Gropius

We don't agree with the depiction of buildings in the '20s and 1930s. Things were seen either from above or below which tended to…

— Bernd Becher

It is perhaps not a surprise that photography developed as a technological medium in the industrial age, when reality started to disappear. It is…

— Jean Baudrillard

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate. Most of the photographs in your paper, unless they are hard news, are lies. Fashion…

— Martin Parr