9 quotes found
“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”
“Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.”
“Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever.Photographs are.”
“But the very question of whether photography is or is not an art is essentially a misleading one. Although photography generates works that can be called art --it requires subjectivity, it can lie,...”
“To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate. It can also corrupt ...”
“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically pos...”
“If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.”
“A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographsespecially those of people, of distant landscapes and faraway cities, of the vanished pastare i...”
“The photographer is now charging real beasts, beleaguered and too rare to kill. Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what...”
