Cameras Quote by Douglas Huebler

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…

— John Berger

Photography has a meaning only if it exhausts all possible images.

— Italo Calvino

Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's cone of…

— John Szarkowski

A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think you can…

— Annie Leibovitz

Every photograph could be set up. If one could imagine it, one could set it up. The whole discussion is a way of not…

— Garry Winogrand

The camera photographs what's there.

— Jack Nicholson

You cannot explain the whole world in one photograph. Photography pretends. You can see everything that's in front of the camera, but there's always…

— Thomas Ruff

There have to be at least two copies of a photograph, otherwise it’s not a photograph.

— Thomas Ruff

Paintings invariably sum up; photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one photograph, unlike…

— Susan Sontag

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

With every (informative) photograph, the photographic program becomes poorer by one possibility while the photographic universe becomes richer by one realization.

— Vilem Flusser

Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in the most…

— Howard S. Becker