Siegfried Kracauer
[Media critic and sociologist, b. 1889, Frankfurt, Germany, d. 1966, New York.]
The photograph annihilates the person.
Paul Theroux
[Writer, b. 1941, Medford, Massachusetts, lives in Cape Cod, Massachusetts and Haleiwa, Hawaii.]
“I’ve never seen Marilyn like that before,” a critic once said to me. “That’s not Marilyn,” I said. “It’s a picture.”
Lewis Baltz
[Photographer, b. 1945, Newport Beach, California, d. 2014, Paris.]
Photographs no longer provoke a meditation upon external phenomena, but on the conditions of their own existence.
Allan Sekula
[Photographer, writer, and theorist, b. 1951, Erie, Pennsylvania, d. 2013, Los Angeles.]
Nothing could be more natural than... a man pulling a snapshot from his wallet and saying, “This is my dog.”
Luigi Ghirri
[Photographer, b. 1943, Scandiano, Italy, d. 1992, Reggio Emilia, Italy.]
Photography needs to do away with the idea of being a representation simply because it is always ‘an image’.
E. H. Gombrich
[Historian and writer, b. 1909, Vienna, Austria, d. 2001, London.]
All art is “image making” and all image making is the creation of substitutes.
Oscar Wilde
[Writer, b. 1854, Dublin, d. 1900, Paris, France.]
The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.
Frederick Douglass
[Writer, orator, activist, b. 1818, Talbot County, Maryland, d. 1895, Washington, D.C..]
Negroes can never have impartial portraits at the hands of white artists. It seems to us next to impossible for white men to take likenesses of black men, without most grossly exaggerating their distinctive features.
