Detached Quote by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

A photograph is what it appears to be. Already far from 'reality' because of its silence, lack of movement, two-dimensional ity and isolation from…

— Richard Kalvar

New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear. To find these images is to dare to…

— Lisette Model

Things just enter reality through photographs.

— Thomas Demand

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things…

— Marcel Proust

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

To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to…

— Douglas Crimp

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding…

— Luke Davies

“Images are mediations between the world and human beings. Human beings 'ex-ist', i.e. the world is not immediately accessible to them and therefore images…

— Vilém Flusser

Because we see reality in different ways, we must understand that we are looking at different truths rather than the truth and that, therefore,…

— John Szarkowski

Each image suggests an inner reality, a kind of scar of the past, a reflection of an act or an event once lived.

— Peter C Bunnell

Where do these images comes from and where do they return? What is it that projects these images? How is it that we are…

— Frederick Lenz