Camera obscura Quote by Lev Manovich

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

Photographs offer more than decisive moments. They are not alone, they add and subtract and change with time. They are metaphors for our lives...…

— Edmundo Desnoes

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the painters and…

— Ralph Gibson

Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them…

— Berenice Abbott

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 aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices stopping time and preserving fragments of the past,…

— Peter Wollen

“Those static images have the uncanny ability to jar the memory and bring places and people back to life. They bridge the present with…

— Isabel Lopez

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

The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly…

— Howard Hodgkin

“Photography is a magical kind of art that allows people to preserve time and moments, and to describe the world the way they see…

— Sahara Sanders

Photographs are still always depictions, it's just that for my generation the model for the photograph is probably not reality any more, but images…

— Thomas Ruff