The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
Photography Quotes
Photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar, and even more importantly, an ethics of seeing.
A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.
It gradually dawned on me that something must be wrong with the art of painting as practiced at that time. With my camera I could procure the same results as those attained by painters – in black and white for the time being, perhaps in color later on. I could express the same moods. Artists […]
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever – it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody – hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it! It transforms into desperadoes the meekest of men; depicts sinless innocence upon the pictured faces of ruffians; gives the wise man the stupid leer of a fool, and a fool an expression of more […]
God makes the pictures; I just take ’em.
I needed no friends now… Sundays my camera and I would take long car-rides into the country – always alone, and the nights were spent feverishly developing my plates in some makeshift darkroom. . . and then the first print I made from my first 5 x 7 negative – a snow scene – the […]
The camera can photograph thought. It’s better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.
When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I’d like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.
