Events Quote by Susan Sontag

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. One can't possess reality, one can possess (and…

— Susan Sontag

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. Or they enlarge a reality that is felt…

— Susan Sontag

Every photograph is the result of a physical imprint transferred by light reflections onto a sensitive surface. The photograph is thus a type of…

— Rosalind E. Krauss

Though infested with many bewildering anomalies, photographs are considered our best arbiters between our visual perceptions and the memory of them. It is not…

— Max Kozloff

The images which the [press] photographer has filtered from reality, whether particular events or the anguish of human reactions to them, already bear a…

— Yukio Mishima

Making photographs can be a way for me to bring something up and into consciousness, something either shared or individual.

— Torbjørn Rødland

[Cameras] tend to turn people into things and the photograph extends and multiplies the human image to the proportions of mass-produced merchandise and, [in…

— Marshall McLuhan

For me, photographs take their power from memory and emotion. A picture tells its own story, shaped by the mood or insights of the…

— Robert Keith Leavitt

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to…

— Ansel Adams

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are…

— Susan Sontag

Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love.

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Photography [can] be seen as a system of representation that you bring to bear on other systems.

— Martha Rosler