Affair Quote by Weegee

“Murder develops. Yes, like a photograph, isn’t it?” “It’s very much like photography really,” said Dermot. “Quite a good comparison of yours.”

— Agatha Christie

Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a…

— Susan Sontag

Photography is a love affair with life.

— Burk Uzzle

The camera's perspective exactly matches that of the assassin: it now shoots the tourists shooting their own memorial photos, and we can watch this…

— Joachim Schmid

The camera is an eye that sees and records the lives of filthy people. Its pictures are hung in museums and published in thick…

— David Shrigley

[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

Photography has always been capable of manipulation. Even more subtle and more invidious is the fact that any time you put a frame to…

— Joel Sternfeld

Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea.

— Francis Ford Coppola

I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it.

— Lorrie Moore

A camera has interesting ideas of its own.

— John Szarkowski

Remember the cliche: ... "Cameras don't take pictures, people take pictures."

— Michael Lesy

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

— Susan Sontag