Distance Quote by Susan Sontag

To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability…

— Susan Sontag

My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat or in film's case 'run on' manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives…

— Andy Warhol

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

— Gordon Parks

This benefit of seeing...can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives,…

— Dorothea Lange

“That we are not totally transformed, that we can turn away, turn the page, switch the channel, does not impugn the ethical value of…

— Susan Sontag

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show things that you like about the universe, things that you…

— Gordon Parks

The art of watching has become mere skill at rapid apperception and understanding of continuously changing visual images. The younger generation has acquired this…

— Anonymous

Exposing something that's painful or raw or not so pleasant. That seems to be the dramatic motor of documentaries, exposure.

— Wayne White

“Seeing is itself touched with elegy. Reality seems to press its light into us, it is happening, but that's not the way things are.…

— Ryan Knighton

Images anesthetize. An event known through photographs certainly becomes more real than it would have been if one had never seen the photographs ...…

— Susan Sontag

Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph

— Andre Kertesz

The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions.

— Diane Ackerman