Photographer Quote by Susan Sontag Download Open image “The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates.” — Susan Sontag ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Photographer Photography Preserves
a likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“Photographers are the new Brahmins: we have no volition when they rule us.” — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer” — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Photography... has lived under the tyranny of its subject matter: the object has exercised an almost total domination. — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
“We photographers are a despicable bunch. We take photographs. The best of us do not show people as they wish to be seen, instead,… — Waswo X. Waswo Copy Share Image
Photography has become an outstanding and indispensable means of propaganda in the revolutionary struggle. — Willi Munzenberg Copy Share Image
Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I believe all photographers want to be remembered for their images. They reflect a piece of their soul.” — Christopher Paul Flateau Copy Share Image
In a sense, photographs are highly literary, and the photographer, like the writer, has to be both a master of craft and a visionary.… — Peter C Bunnell Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject… [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Why not eliminate schooling between age 12-16? It’s biologically + psychologically too turbulent a time to be cooped up inside, made to sit all… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words,… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
You know, they always say that the photographer is a hunter of images. That is a flattering image, the idea of a hunter, it's… — Robert Doisneau Copy Share Image
I know my idea of beauty isn't what most people's is, and the fact that I'm getting the opportunity to show my beauty and… — Kelly Osbourne Copy Share Image
I was taking all prints and I brought them to the Magnum meetings, trying the old Josef Koudelka trick: Give them to photographers, who… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
Out in the field I try not to hold expectations. I try to achieve an openness. The senses heighten so that I am totally… — Keith Lazelle Copy Share Image
[Photographer Julian Wasser] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such a great… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
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