Cameras Quote by Douglas Huebler

Our camera does not produce pretty pictures, but exact duplications that, through our renunciation of photographic effects, turn out to be relatively objective. The…

— Bernd Becher

With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain.

— Claude Levi-Strauss

I hate cameras. They interfere, they’re always in the way. I wish: if I could just work with my eyes alone. To get a…

— Richard Avedon

Photography is a tool to negotiate our idea of reality. Thus it is the responsibility of photographers to not contribute with anaesthetic images but…

— Joan Fontcuberta

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are…

— Susan Sontag

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.

— Demetri Martin

This camera works like photosynthesis. It is as if you were Xeroxing your own face. The pictures have such physicality: their surface is like…

— Julian Schnabel

I believe that photography can only reproduce the surface of things. The same applies to a portrait. I take photographs of people the same…

— Thomas Ruff

There comes a moment when it is no longer you who takes the photograph, but receives the way to do it quite naturally and…

— Sebastiao Salgado

Of course [photography] cannot create, nor express all we want to express. But it can be a witness of our passage on earth, like…

— Mario Giacomelli

The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't…

— Erica Jong

... we are there with our cameras to record reality. Once we start modifying that which exists, we are robbing photography of its most…

— Philip Jones Griffiths