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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

by Dorthea Lange Found in: Photography Quotes,
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Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with read more

Where 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 ro see.

by Dorthea Lange Found in: Photography Quotes,
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

by Ansel Adams Found in: Photography Quotes,
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Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that read more

Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my time -- this art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones.

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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but read more

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.

by John Berger Found in: Photography Quotes,
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The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the read more

The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

by Elizabeth Bowen Found in: Photography Quotes,
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Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

by Ansel Adams Found in: Photography Quotes,
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The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the read more

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

by Brooks Anderson Found in: Photography Quotes,
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