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Photography bears witness to the passage of time, but it cannot make statements as to the importance of things at any time, nor is it concerned with "truth and beauty" or with teasing out what underlies appearance. Rather, it voraciously records anything in view.

LIZ WELLS
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Photography: A Critical Introduction


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Composition in photography is almost as varied as composition in music or words -- melodic or atonal, safe or daring -- and can enhance subject, theme, and style. Every photograph you take involves you in some compositional decision, even if this is simply where to set up the camera or when to press the button.

MICHAEL LANGFORD

Basic Photography

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A photograph is a biography of a moment.

ART SHAY

interview, CBS News, February 13, 2014


The definition of a picture and the definition of photography is evolving in this truly digital space. Pictures can do things that pictures were never supposed to do.

RUSSELL ARMAND

"How the GIF Is Taking Over the World", Time, March 30, 2016


One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.

DOROTHEA LANGE

Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life


The definition of photography is changing, too, and becoming more of a language. We're attaching imagery to tweets or text messages, almost like a period at the end of a sentence. It's enhancing our communication in a whole new way.

JOSHUA ALLEN HARRIS

"In the Future, We Will Photograph Everything and Look at Nothing", The New Yorker, April 4, 2016


Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can make any statement the manipulator chooses.

MICHAEL LANGFORD

Basic Photography

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Photography knows how to authenticate its misrepresentations.

MASON COOLEY

City Aphorisms

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You put your camera around your neck in the morning, along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you.

DOROTHEA LANGE

Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life


The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

RICHARD AVEDON

attributed, Unmarked: The Politics of Performance


After all, the decisive quality in a photographer is the faculty of seeing certain things and being tempted by them.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

"George Bernard Shaw on Coburn's Photography", British Journal of Photography, 1906

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The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here; the duration of the transmission is insignificant; the photograph of the missing being, as Sontag says, will touch me like the delayed rays of a star.

ROLAND BARTHES

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

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Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

MARC RIBOUD

FotoFest 90: The International Month of Photography: February 10-March 10


Photography is an art of observation. It has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

ELLIOTT ERWITT

attributed, "100 inspirational photography quotes", Shootzilla


I love things like Instagram and Pinterest. I get so many ideas just by getting a daily digest of images from great photographers who I follow on social media. What that also does is it tells me which pictures stand out to me, then I can analyse them and try and work out what it is about that particular image that had me mesmerised for longer than a glance.

GUY SEBASTIAN

"Guy Sebastian shares his photography tips", Sunshine Coast Daily, April 26, 2016


The act of photography is like going on a hunt in which photographer and camera merge into one indivisible function. This is a hunt for new states of things, situations never seen before, for the improbable, for information.

VILEM FLUSSER

Towards a Philosophy of Photography

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What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

KARL LAGERFELD

attributed, Click You!

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The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous.

WILLIAM ALBERT ALLARD

attributed, Fine Art Photography: Water, Ice, and Fog


We think of photography as the intersection of science and art.

EDWIN H. LAND

attributed, Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land

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Photography, if practiced with high seriousness, is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere.

JOHN SZARKOWSKI

Looking at photographs: 100 pictures from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art