#photograph

Contrast is what makes photography interesting. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#interesting #makes #photography

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#end #everything #exists #order #photograph

But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#come #empirically #harm #i #photographs

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades. ↗

— Carmen Sylva

#fades #friendship #gratitude #like #photograph

Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers, however, have not understood 'information.' What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better they do it, the more they prove the victory of the camera over the human being. ↗

— Vilém Flusser

#ethics #photograph #photography #art

Everything built with an art, May your eyes couldn't see it, but digital eye can. ↗

— Chanaka Satharasinghe.

#art

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#photography #portraits #beauty

For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere; perhaps in this image which produces Death while trying to preserve life. Contemporary with the withdrawal of rites, Photography may correspond to the intrusion, in our modern society, of an asymbolic Death, outside of religion, outside of ritual, a kind of abrupt dive into literal Death. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#death

The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#bring #chanel #designer #face #fashion

Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot. ↗

— David Amram

#five #french #french horn #horn #issue