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Susan Sontag2 quotes
So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful. — Susan Sontag · 1977Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us. — Susan Sontag · 2003Alfred Eisenstaedt1 quote
It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter. — Alfred Eisenstaedt · 1995Bruno Forestier1 quote
Photography is truth and cinema is truth twenty-four times a second. — Bruno Forestier · 1963Dorothea Lange1 quote
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. — Dorothea Lange · 1982Edward Steichen1 quote
The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself. — Edward Steichen · 1972George Bernard Shaw1 quote
The photographer is like the cod which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. — George Bernard Shaw · 1906Henri Cartier-Bresson1 quote
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression. — Henri Cartier-Bresson · 1952Julia Margaret Cameron1 quote
I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied. — Julia Margaret Cameron · 1874Louis Daguerre1 quote
I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight! — Louis Daguerre · 1825