#photographs

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#give #help #help people #imaginary #insecure

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#freezing #melt #moment #mortality #mutability

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#becomes #photographs #strategy

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#fixed #flash #forever #illuminated #life

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#become #been #camera #photographs #rather

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

— Jock Sturges

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I like photographs which leave something to the imagination. ↗

— Fay Godwin

#imagination #leave #like #photographs #something

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another. ↗

— Robert Smith

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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. ↗

— Ansel Adams

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The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious. ↗

— Bono

#photographs #self-conciousness #beauty