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“Photography is a love affair with life.”

Charlie Waite

Днес съм на вълна черно-бяло вдъхновение. Ето някои емблематични кадри и цитати, насочващи обектива навътре- към емоциите, които фотографията поражда докосвайки съдържание отвид видимото. 

“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.” 
― Diane Arbus

 “Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”
― Marc Riboud

 “All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.” 

― Susan Sontag

 To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.” 

― Susan Sontag, On Photography

 “For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.” 
― Henri Cartier-Bresson

  “Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.”

Burk Uzzle

 “A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.”

Edward Weston

 “I am not interested in shooting new things – I am interested to see things new.”
Eve Arnold

 “The photograph itself doesn’t interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.”

Imogen Cunningham

  “With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society’s natural prejudice and giving this a twist.”
Paul Caponigro

 Photographs open doors into the past, but they also allow a look into the future.”

Tim Walker

 “There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.” 
― Ansel Adams

“People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they're doing, or how their hair looks. Nobody sees the person holding the camera.” 
― Erica O'Rourke

 “A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. ” 
― Richard Avedon

“A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.” 
― Brigitte Bardot

“I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.” 

― Diane Arbus

The Photograph then becomes a bizarre (i)medium(i), a new form of hallucination: false on the level of perception, true on the level of time: a temporal hallucination, so to speak, a modest (o)shared(i) hallucination (on the one hand 'it is not there,' on the other 'but it has indeed been'): a mad image, chafed by reality.” 

― Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography