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The masterful work of the DP [Director of Photography] Kevin McKnight and his crew, and the layers and depths each actor goes to to ensure we the audience feel a human connection to these characters led me to sign my name on the dotted line.
AISHA HINDS

Actor Audience Character Crew Depth Each Layer Name People Photography Sign Work
In the final analysis, photography… is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun.
ABIGAIL SOLOMON GODEAU

Analysis Final Gun Hired Hireling Photography
The only way to kill death is through photography.
JEAN COCTEAU

Camera Death Kill Photography Way
… photography, like all camera-made images such as film and video, effaces the marks of its making (and maker) at the click of a shutter. A photograph appears to be self-generated – as though it had created itself.
ABIGAIL SOLOMON GODEAU

Camera Efface Film Making Mark Photography Self Video
In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder, like winnicott’s psychotic patient, over a catastrophe which has already occurred. Whether or not the subject is already dead, every photograph is this catastrophe.
ROLAND BARTHES

Children Death Fear Mom Myself Patient Photography
The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.
EDWARD WESTON

Photography Steel Substance
Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
ROLAND BARTHES

Fear Photography Scare Thinking
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
SUSAN SONTAG

Lust Photography Satisfaction
Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.
BERENICE ABBOTT

Photographer Photography World
Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
JOHN BERGER

Choice Decision Given Photography Situation
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.
AARON SISKIND

Feeling Loving Photography Touching Way
I became interested in photography when I was sharing a studio with Walker Evans, and found my own sketching was inadequate.
BEN SHAHN

Found Photography Sketching
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
JOHN BERGER

Forget Opposite Other Pain Painting Photography Remind Way
The photographer, like an acrobat, must defy the laws of probability or even of possibility; at the limit, he must defy those of the interesting: the photograph becomes surprising when we do not know why it has been taken.
ROLAND BARTHES

Known Law Limitation Photography Possible
Sometimes all you need is a lake shoot early in the morning.
LITTLE PAULSON

Early Lake Morning Photography
I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.
AI WEIWEI

Architecture Art Installation People Photography Publishing Together Working
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
DOROTHEA LANGE

Alter Change Hold Inspirational Instant Life Photography Take
The photographic image is a message without a code.
ROLAND BARTHES

Code Image Message Photography
I never really learned photography.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI

Institue Interest Learned Photography Really
When I was younger I used to be really into photography, and I still am, I just don’t really get to do it besides taking my own artists photos and stuff like that.
MELANIE MARTINEZ

Artist Myself Photography Young
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
JOHN BERGER

Inspirational Light Material Photography Primary
In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
EMILE ZOLA

Photography View Yourself
… the battle for the acceptance of photography as Art was not only counter-productive but counter-revolutionary. The most important photography is most emphatically not Art.
A. D. COLEMAN

Acceptance Art Click Creative Fact Lens Lesson Life Photography Picture
The only nature I’m interested in is my own nature.
AARON SISKIND

Interested Nature Own Photographer Photography
Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a moment in time, leaving an indelible image.
BIANCA JAGGER

Freeze Leaving Photography Translation Written
I love photography. Photographers and photos. I took a ton of pictures in Paris, and I find that I’m most inspired by following other photographers on Instagram.
ABIGAIL SPENCER

Country Instagram Photo Photography Picture Ton
Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.
ROLAND BARTHES

Camera Living Myself Old Photography Sound

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