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… 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
Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.
MAN RAY

Art Fashion Need Old 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
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
Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.
BERENICE ABBOTT

Photographer Photography World
Sometimes all you need is a lake shoot early in the morning.
LITTLE PAULSON

Early Lake Morning Photography
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.
AARON SISKIND

Feeling Loving Photography Touching Way
The only way to kill death is through photography.
JEAN COCTEAU

Camera Death Kill Photography Way
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
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
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
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
As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.
ROLAND BARTHES

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

Inspirational Light Material Photography Primary
I never really learned photography.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI

Institue Interest Learned Photography Really
Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
JOHN BERGER

Choice Decision Given Photography Situation
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 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
In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
EMILE ZOLA

Photography View Yourself
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
The photographic image is a message without a code.
ROLAND BARTHES

Code Image Message 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
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
DOROTHEA LANGE

Alter Change Hold Inspirational Instant Life Photography Take
The only nature I’m interested in is my own nature.
AARON SISKIND

Interested Nature Own Photographer Photography
I love to photograph the gorgeous landscapes when I travel.
BLAKE LIVELY

Gorgeous Landscape Love Photography Travel When
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

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