Imaging Quote by Janet Napolitano

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

— Roland Barthes

Traditionally, images have functioned as representations of something in the world, but we are quickly approaching the point where vast majority of images are…

— Trevor Paglen

Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology.

— Ken Rockwell

The photographic frame is no longer used as a documentary window into undisturbed private lives, but as a stage on which the subjects consciously…

— Arthur Tress

People photograph everything and nothing - no interaction is deemed to have actually happened unless somebody has a picture of it,

— Hugh Jackman

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. One can't possess reality, one can possess (and…

— Susan Sontag

A picture is something that makes invisible its before and after.

— Jeff Wall

Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate…

— John Dykstra

Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the technology of…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

The necessary condition for an image is sight,

— Roland Barthes

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never…

— Susan Sontag

A photograph can look anyway. It just depends basically on what you photograph.

— Garry Winogrand