Cameras Quote by Susan Sontag

There's something essentially fictive about a photograph. That doesn't mean that if you understand that, and you understand how the world is transformed by…

— Stephen Shore

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

Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly…

— Walter Lippmann

Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the painters and…

— Ralph Gibson

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality…

— Susan Sontag

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

— Arnold Newman

Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly…

— Walter Lippmann

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

— Garry Winogrand

Photographs and reality are just night and day. In reality, the information is all there. A photograph is just kind of a hint.

— Nelson Shanks

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

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something…

— Susan Sontag

Photographs are still always depictions, it's just that for my generation the model for the photograph is probably not reality any more, but images…

— Thomas Ruff