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The photograph, then, becomes a representation of a representation of a disease that represents. In other words, in order to produce the most perfect images of hysteria, the hysteric – a woman whose illness simulates the symptoms of other diseases – was transformed, through hypnosis, into an artificial hysteric who perfectly simulated the simulations of hysteria. The medical photograph becomes a copy of a copy of a copy, a representation so far removed from the original that all duplicitous traits, were easily erased, leaving the deranged and chaotic nature of the original far behind. The photograph succeeded in turning the hysteric into a wholly artificial being, literally a flat, framed, unmoving image. ↗

— Asti Hustvedt

#hysterics #image #photograph #women #nature

What pricks me is the discovery of this equivalence. In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: She is going to die: I shudder… over a catastrophe which has already occurred. Whether or not the subject is already dead, every photograph is this catastrophe. ↗

— Roland Barthes

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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it! ↗

— Ansel Adams

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Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths. ↗

— Eddie Adams

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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#being #deepest #expresses #feels #fully

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can! ↗

— Ansel Adams

#arts #both #camera #does #express

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#landscape #often #photographer #photography #supreme

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. ↗

— Ansel Adams

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We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#ever #full #hold #into #just

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. ↗

— Berenice Abbott

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