#graph

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#explaining #force #major #man #photography

It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#hard #make #photographer #really

I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone. ↗

— Celia Johnson

#anyone #autobiography #because #frank #frank sinatra

Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. ↗

— Dorthea Lange

#eyes #how #little #more #nothing

I believe there's only one autobiography you can do. ↗

— John McEnroe

#believe #i #i believe #only #you

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography. ↗

— Mackenzie King

#geography #history #much #some #too

All autobiography is self-indulgent. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#self-indulgent

I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on different angles, and maybe one day I will, but you know what? There's time for that because I'd like to have the whole story. ↗

— John Saxon

#asked #autobiography #because #been #couple

When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed centerfold, always receding before him, keeps the man destabilized in pursuit, unable to focus on the beauty of the woman--known, marked, lined, familiar—-who hands him the paper every morning. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#aging #beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics

That was why, later on, he began to lose interest in photography: first when colour took over, then when it became plain that the old magic of light-sensitive emulsions was waning, that to the rising generation the enchantment lay in a techne of images without substance, images that could flash through the ether without residing anywhere, that could be sucked into a machine and emerge from it doctored, untrue. He gave up recording the world in photographs then, and transferred his energies to saving the past. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#illusion #photography #age