Cameras Quote by Stephen Shore

Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of…

— Susan Sontag

You cannot explain the whole world in one photograph. Photography pretends. You can see everything that's in front of the camera, but there's always…

— Thomas Ruff

I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph…

— Galen Rowell

Photography is the act of "fixing" time, not of "expressing" the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the…

— Daido Moriyama

All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world. This is…

— Geoffrey Batchen

Photography cannot change the world, but it can show the world, especially when it changes.

— Marc Riboud

To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult…

— Ansel Adams

Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own.…

— Robert Heinecken

“Photography is light-writing, the language of images. Less abstract than written or spoken language, it selects images from the existing world of appearances and…

— David Levi Strauss

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next…

— Galen Rowell

You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see…

— Ernst Haas

Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.

— Aaron Huey