William Burroughs
[Writer, b. 1914, St. Louis, Missouri, d. 1997, Lawrence, Kansas.]
There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.
Donald McCullin
[Photographer, b. 1935, Finsbury Park, London, lives in Somerset, England.]
You cannot walk on the water of hunger, misery, and death. You have to wade through to record them.
Arnold Genthe
[Photographer, b. 1869, Berlin, Germany, d. 1942, New York.]
The tremendous development of the camera in recent years has been remarkable. Now almost anyone can take pictures, and most of them are doing it. But it is rather like giving a 6-year-old a pistol.
(1937)
Ron Galella
[Photographer, b. 1931, Bronx, New York, lives in New York.]
My job is thick with risks, threats, occasional violence and sometimes the necessary folly that sometimes courts humiliation and ridicule. But I don’t care. I see myself as the dean of American paparazzi.
Edmundo Desnoes
[Writer, b. 1930, Havana, Cuba, lives in New York.]
Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man.
Jacques Lacan
[Writer and psychoanalyst, b. 1901, Paris, France, d. 1981, Paris.]
In this matter of the visible, everything is a trap.
Luigi Ghirri
[Photographer, b. 1943, Scandiano, Italy, d. 1992, Reggio Emilia, Italy.]
Certain maniacal aspects seem dangerous to me: photography as the aphasia of seeing, the antechamber for the anaesthetization of the glance, the need to be original and creative at all costs, the desperate search for the new and for a trademark…
Robert Capa (Endre Ern? Friedmann)
[Photographer, b. 1913, Budapest, Hungary, d. 1954, Thai Binh, Vietnam.]
What’s the point of getting killed if you’ve got the wrong exposure?
