Quotes – Walter Benjamin
The camera… on the one hand extends our comprehension of the necessities that rule our lives; on the other, it manages to assure us of an immense and unexpected field of action - Walter Benjamin, 1930
Quotes – Jean Baudrillard
“Art does not die because there is no more art, it dies because there is too much.”
David Levi Strauss
A demonstrator breaks into the Royal Bank of Scotland during this year’s G20 protests. Source
“The first question must always be: Who is using this photograph, and to what end?”
Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
“If I followed my better instincts right now, I would put this typewriter in the Volvo and drive to the home of the nearest politician – any politician – and hurl the goddamn machine through his front window…flush the bugger out with an act of lunatic violence then soak him down with mace and run him naked down Main Street in Aspen with a bell around his neck and black lumps all over his body from the jolts of a high-powered ‘Bull Buster’ cattle prod” – HST
Robert Frank
“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.” Robert Frank, LIFE (26 November 1951), p. 21
Andy Warhol
Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button. – Andy Warhol
Charles Baudelaire
Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers. – Charles Baudelaire – 1859, [cited in: “Camera Austria” 14/84, Annie Le Brun “The Feeling of Nature at the Close of the Twentieth Century”, p. 20]
Marcel Proust
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
- Marcel Proust
Ed Ruscha
“I think photography is dead as a fine art; its only place is in the commercial world, for technical or information purposes. I don’t mean cinema photography, but still photography, that is, limited edition, individual, hand-processed photos. Mine are simply reproductions of photos.” Ed Ruscha, 1965.
