"A photograph is always invisible, it is not…" — Roland Barthes
"A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see."
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- We do not see everything in the environment in the complete, totally resolved, explicit character of the photograph. We, in… — Burton Silverman
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- In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it. — Emile Zola
- Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things. — Errol Morris
- While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with… — Dorothea Lange
- Nothing is as invisible as the obvious. — Richard Farson
- A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. — Ansel Adams
122 Quotes by Roland Barthes
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- Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget…
- There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
- I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been…
- To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both…
- What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the…
- Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of…
- Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but…
- There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and…
- To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the…
- Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an…
- Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious…
- The photographic image... is a message without a code.
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