Artifacts Quote by Michel de Certeau

The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of…

— Michel de Certeau

Panorama is the first word for landscape in Greek. It was about [how today] we see everything, we get to see everything, everything is…

— Michal Rovner

Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the technology of…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

“A vision is not a static picture but a process that gets refined over time”

— Marjan van den Belt

Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.

— Rudolf Arnheim

The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As…

— Elizabeth Edwards

A large picture can give us images of things, but a relatively small one can best re-create the instantaneous unity of nature as a…

— Clement Greenberg

Computer images, like camera images today, will be seen as representations of a simulated, second-degree reality with little or no connection to the unmediated…

— Andy Grundberg

The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

— Ezra Pound

We have grown up in an age where there is nothing that cannot now, courtesy of computer-generated imagery, be convincingly rendered in the visual…

— Glen Duncan

Through photography, both artist and scientist can find a common denominator in their search for the synthesis of modern vision in time, space and…

— Ernst Haas