top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does."
Standard
Customized
More
"With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Mediante la fotografAa y la palabra escrita intento desesperadamente vencer la condicion fugaz de mi existencia, atrapar los momentos antes de que se desvanezcan, despejar la confusion de mi pasado."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts."
Author Name
Personal Development
"In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Today my passion is still black and white. Today if I have an array of cameras in front of me the one I would reach for that I would feel most comfortable with would be a 4 X 5 View camera. I was once working in a sort of soft light situation."
Author Name
Personal Development
"My surprises come usually once I start rolling and photographing."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget."
God
"One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man."
Home
"That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe."
Life
"What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time."
Time
"Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion."
Being
"Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does."
Photography
"When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own."
Voice
"The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying."
Dying
"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich."
Poverty
"Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored."
Dogs
bottom of page