1,962 Quotes About Photography

Photography is my passion; flower photography is my art.

It’s not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.

In one enciphering corner of my mind I believe still that every line in every poem is the orphaned caption of a lost photograph. By a related logic, each photograph sits in the antechamber of speech. Undissolved fragments of the past can be seen through the skin of photograph.

Photography is inescapably a memorial art. It selects, out of the flow of time, a moment to be preserved, with the moments before and after falling away like sheer cliffs.

A camera is just a tool, and you’re a tool if you’re worried about what camera you are using.

Texts do not signify the world, they signify the images they tear up. Hence, to decode texts, means to discover the images dignified by them

Traditional images signify phenomena whereas technical (produced by an apparatus) images signify concepts.

This apparently non-symbolic, objective character of technical images lead whoever looks at them to see them not as images but as windows

This, I think, shows what being free means. Not cutting off one’s ties with other but making networks out of these connections in cooperation with them.