Guy Debord
[Writer and theorist, b. 1931, Paris, d. 1994, Champot, Upper Loire, France.]
The spectacle is not a collection of images; rather, it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images.
Lev Manovich
[Artist, theorist, and critic, b. 1960, Moscow, lives in New York.]
... what is faked [by the computerization of image-making], of course, is not reality, but photographic reality, reality as seen by the camera lens. In other words, what computer graphics have (almost) achieved is not realism, but rather only
photorealism—the ability to fake not our perceptual and bodily experience of reality but only its photographic image.
Sebastião Salgado
[Photographer, b. 1944, Aimores, Minas Gerias, Brazil, lives in Paris and Brazil.]
Photography is full of symbolism, it’s a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single image.
Emmet Gowin
[Photographer, b. 1941, Danville, Virginia, lives in Princeton, New Jersey.]
Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t see.
Frank Deford
[Writer, b. 1938, Baltimore, Maryland, d. 2017, Key West, Florida.]
She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.
Gilles Deleuze
[Writer and philosopher, b. 1925, Paris, d. 1995, Paris.]
Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.
William Eggleston
[Photographer, b. 1939, Memphis, Tennessee, lives in Memphis.]
I don’t look at other photographs much at all. I don’t know why. I study my own a lot.
Jean Baudrillard
[Writer and theorist, b. 1929, Reims, France, d. 2007, Paris.]
For the heavenly fire no longer strikes depraved cities, it is rather the lens which cuts through ordinary reality like a laser, putting it to death.
