Cameras Quote by Joan Didion

“Grammar is a piano I play by ear, since I seem to have been out of school the year the rules were mentioned. All…

— Joan Didion

As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the world looks like to…

— Aaron Siskind

The way in which the photograph records experience is also different from the way of language. Language makes sense only when it is presented…

— Neil Postman

It happens sometimes that when someone has a camera, they change; sometimes they change for the better.

— Derek Cianfrance

Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it…

— Stephen Shore

I said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is.

— Garry Winogrand

Editing can alter the original meaning and context, and computers can alter the image itself. The camera can also be manipulated. At the very…

— Dan Rather

The camera only facilitates the taking. The photographer must do the giving in order to transform and transcend ordinary reality. The problem is to…

— Ernst Haas

Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a moment in…

— Bianca Jagger

The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.

— Anonymous

The way we see things is constantly changing. At the moment the way we see things has been left a lot to the camera.…

— David Hockney

“The camera lets me see things in a different way. It's like I finally have perspective. I can't always say stuff right in words.…

— Eileen Cook