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A collection of quotations filed under photography.
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.
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.
Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
