photography

Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the public, or rather into the creation of a new social value, which is the publicity of the private: the private is consumes as such, publicly.

I don't trust words. I trust pictures.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

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.

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

I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it.

You think too much and I bet it kills the magic," he says simply. "Some things are just instinct and if you try and replace that with thinking they die. You can read and think as much as you want before and after, but in the moment, man, you have to, like, let go.

John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, __f you want something to look interesting, don__ light all of it.

Images are mediations between the world and human beings. Human beings 'ex-ist', i.e. the world is not immediately accessible to them and therefore images are needed to make it comprehensible. However, as soon as this happens, images come between the world and human beings. They are supposed to be maps but they turn into screens: Instead of representing the world, they obscure it until human beings' lives finally become a function of the images they create. Human beings cease to decode the images and instead project them, still encoded, into the world 'out there', which meanwhile itself becomes like an image - a context of scenes, of states of things. This reversal of the function of the image can be called 'idolatry'; we can observe the process at work in the present day: The technical images currently all around us are in the process of magically restructuring our 'reality' and turning it into a 'global image scenario'. Essentially this is a question of 'amnesia'. Human beings forget they created the images in order to orientate themselves in the world. Since they are no longer able to decode them, their lives become a function of their own images: Imagination has turned into hallucination.

Don__ pack up your camera until you__e left the location.

A good selfie is when you successfully capture the feeling of that very moment!

When you take pictures of nature with passion, nature poses for you more passionately!

Photobomb me at your own risk!

We sometimes take photos (or record a video) so that we can later see what was happening while we were busy taking photos (or recording a video).

Standing in the spotlight, surrounded by all my selves, each of them naked and vulnerable before your lens, I want to be split open and reminded of shame. I know that sounds selfish, but I__ allowed to be selfish __ause we__e talking about photography. Do you honestly believe I don__ see it for what it actually is: Exploitative? Exploitation is the nature of the beast, whatever the hell that means.

He who seeks beauty will find it.

Photography is not a lens but eye, not a business but art