Ability Quote by Martin Parr

If you photograph for a long time, you get to understand such things as body language. I often do not look at people I…

— Martin Parr

Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.

— Martin Parr

Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.

— Martin Parr

[Cameras] tend to turn people into things and the photograph extends and multiplies the human image to the proportions of mass-produced merchandise and, [in…

— Marshall McLuhan

The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera…

— Jackson Pollock

The photograph as an object has a relationship to that which it represents something like the relationship the snake skin has to the snake…

— John Divola

When you look at pornography, the women become objects, whereas what I'm trying to do is make the person in the photograph as important…

— Rankin

The photograph is the only picture that can truly convey information, even if it is technically faulty and the object can barely be identified.…

— Gerhard Richter

A work of art is itself an object, first of all, and so manipulation is unavoidable: it's a prerequisite. But I needed the greater…

— Gerhard Richter

While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never…

— Susan Sontag

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

— Dorothea Lange

Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to…

— Sharon Olds