Quotes by Photograph Things just enter reality through photographs. Thomas Demand photograph reality Photographs are still always depictions, it's just that for my generation the model for the photograph is probably not reality any more, but images we have of that reality. Thomas Ruff generations photograph reality I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs. Thomas Ruff training photograph art There have to be at least two copies of a photograph, otherwise it’s not a photograph. Thomas Ruff copies photograph two I wanted to make photographs in which everything was so complex and detailed that you could look at them forever and never see everything. Thomas Struth photograph forever looks I'm interested in photographs that have no personal signature. Thomas Struth signatures photograph The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose an experiential model. Thomas Struth function metaphor photograph People aren't really looking at the result when taking a picture on an iPhone. And they don't print it. So to me, it's almost not a photograph. It's like looking in the mirror. It's a tool I don't relate to at all. Tina Barney print photograph people [The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that dross). Tod Papageorge dross passing photograph I photograph like a documentarian, but I print like a painter Todd Hido painter print photograph If you get one photograph that's good from a trip, that's plenty. Todd Hido plenty photograph ifs I believe you can use photographs to meditate on and work through things in your life. Todd Hido photograph use believe A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow. Tomas Transtromer bigger shadow photograph Making photographs can be a way for me to bring something up and into consciousness, something either shared or individual. Torbjørn Rødland individual consciousness photograph Initially I borrowed the word “perverse” from Roland Barthes, meaning pleasure-driven and not geared to inform or promote a service or a product. An unproductive photograph designed to keep you in the process of looking is of course something larger than an expression of aberrant sexuality. Torbjørn Rødland sexuality photograph To go and photograph an airbase is not only to photograph something but it is to insist on one’s right to photograph. You’re flexing that right. Trevor Paglen flexing photograph I have never been interested in making a photograph that describes what the world I live in looks like, but I am interested in what pictures (of the world) look like. Uta Barth photograph looks world Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited in the very act of looking. Victor Burgin complicity conviction photograph Whenever I am tired of making photographs of drawings, I make drawings of photographs. Vik Muniz tired drawing photograph With every (informative) photograph, the photographic program becomes poorer by one possibility while the photographic universe becomes richer by one realization. Vilem Flusser possibility photograph realization «1213141516171819202122»