photographer

person

collective noun

nudity

photography

is often ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.

Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. (Alfred Stieglitz)

is a disclosure, in contrast to the painting which is a construction.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.' Susan Sontag, On Photography

is absent of the incentive to show the world as it is.

Photographers never have much incentive to show the world as it is. (William Leith)

is an armed version of the flaneur, the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes.

The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. Adept of the joys of watching, connoisseur of empathy, the flâneur finds the world 'picturesque.' Susan Sontag, On Photography

is, in America, not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. George Bernard Shaw

is one who tends to photograph what he can't see. Photography goes beyond description to bring insight into the subject, or reveal the subject, not as it looks, but how it feels.

Photographers tend not to photograph what they can't see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we're going to go on forever just photographing more faces and more rooms and more places. Photography has to transcend description. It has to go beyond description to bring insight into the subject, or reveal the subject, not as it looks, but how does it feel' Duane Michals

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