Conventions Quote by Lisette Model

New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear.

— Lisette Model

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

— Roland Barthes

Photographs need to demand the viewer's attention, often implicitly, posing questions as to the nature of what is being depicted. Photographs are not there…

— Fred Ritchin

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

Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

— Errol Morris

This photographic thing has changed the entire vision of the world. It will go through every activity of humanity - science, medicine, space, ESP,…

— Lisette Model

In a world of disturbing images, the general body of photography is bland, dealing complacently with nature and treating our preconceptions as insights. Strange,…

— Henry Holmes Smith

The pictures present an improvised view of life as normal. Life is shown as we think we see it but in fact never do.…

— David Salle

Finding a photograph is often like picking up a piece from a jigsaw-puzzle box with the cover missing. There’s no sense of the whole.…

— Susan Meiselas

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there…

— Dorothea Lange

The only thing we photographers really want more than life, more than sex, more than anything, is to be invisible.

— Philip Jones Griffiths

It's important to realize that the images are everywhere, not just where you want or expect them to be.

— Jay Maisel