Photography Quotes — Page 39

SF

Photographer

“The world of photography is very self-aware. Everybody is always looking around. So it's quite difficult to stand up with a megaphone and declare, "This is what I think." As a reasonably shy person, I found it difficult to do that.”

Thinking Photography Shy

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Stuart Franklin

Photographer

“We don't understand what photography is doing. We don't understand the power of its rhetoric. We don't understand why the Provoke photographers showed Tokyo city as a ghastly and alien city when it was really going through this period of mega-capitalist growth. It's a very, very, very powerful force, the photograph. People ask me why it has such an ability to captivate us. And I just don't know.”

People Powerful Photography

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Ronald Reagan

Politician, Actor

“I like photographers-you don't ask questions.”

Photography Asks

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

“In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty & beauty. You get dwarfs.”

Photography Majesty

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Stuart Franklin

Photographer

“Photography for me has been tremendously good, because I'm not a very sociable person. I'm happy reading or sitting in the library or going for walks. So photography has brought me in contact with people and made me understand people in a way that I probably wouldn't have done if I hadn't been a photographer. And so I'm grateful for that, really.”

Reading Photography Grateful

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Stuart Franklin

Photographer

“In the same way, photography, for me, has fragmented. You do have people doing bodies of work - often with found photographs - that are quite hard to understand unless you got a very sophisticated visual history behind you. But there are different camps.”

People Different Photography

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

“The tradition of portrait painting, to embellish or idealize the subject, remains the aim of everyday and of commercial photography, but it has had a much more limited career in photography considered as art. Generally speaking, the honors have gone to the Cordelias.”

Art Careers Photography

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

“By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is.”

World Feels Photography

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

“In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller readership-a photograph has only one language and is destined potentially for all.”

Photography Language Vocabulary

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

“Images anesthetize. An event known through photographs certainly becomes more real than it would have been if one had never seen the photographs ... But after repeated exposure to images it also becomes less real. ... 'concerned' photography has done at least as much to deaden conscience as to arouse it.”

Real Photography Events

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

“Paintings invariably sum up; photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one photograph, unlike one painting, implies that there will be others.”

Photography Pieces Ongoing

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

“Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an art form at all. Like language, it is a medium in which works of art (among other things) are made.”

Art Lying Photography

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