While 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.
Dorothea LangeTags: perception photography perspective vision cameras
I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.
Rosie O'DonnellTags: life photography film cameras movies
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.
Susan SontagTags: photography cameras
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
Ansel AdamsTags: photography cameras
Possession of the box conferred a kind of power on the wielder--which was that anyone, confronted with the hypnotic glass eye, would submissively obey the most peremptory orders about stance and expression.
Terry PratchettWe all know the sound a camera makes when it snaps a picture. Even some of the digitals do it for nostalgia’s sake.
Jay AsherTags: cameras
People, there's no such thing as, THE BEST CAMERA BRAND, but yes there will always be THE BEST CAMERA AT ANY GIVEN TIME. Technology will change, but not art.
Ashraf SaharudinTags: art photography time technology camera cameras brand branding
Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.
Pat ConroyThe simple act of having a camera, not a cell phone, but a camera-camera, there’s a kind of a heightened perceptional awareness that occurs. Like, I could walk from here to the highway in two minutes, but if I had a camera, that walk could take me two hours.
Jerry N. UelsmannTags: art perception cameras observation awareness
The camera basically is a license to explore.
Jerry N. UelsmannTags: art photography exploration cameras
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