Monday, October 24, 2011

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Diane Arbus

I work from awkwardness, by that I mean I don’t like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.

Ariella Azoulay

In photography - and this is evident in every single photo - there is something that extends beyond the photographer's action, and no photographer, even the most gifted, can claim ownership of what appears in the photograph. Every photograph of others bears the traces of the meeting between the photographed persons and the photographer, neither of whom can, on their own, determine how this meeting will be inscribed in the resulting image. The photograph exceeds any presumption of ownership or monopoly and any attempt at being exhaustive. 

Kiku Adatto

We have more opportunities to live at the surface, continually posing, to see and measure ourselves by the images we make and the images others make of us.

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Émile Zola

A mon avis, vous ne pouvez pas dire que vous avez vu quelque chose à fond si vous n'en avez pas pris une photograpie révélant un tas de détails qui, autrement, ne pourraient même pas être discernés.

Susan Sontag

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

We learn to see ourselves photographically, to regard oneself as attractive is, precisely, to judge that one would look good in a photograph.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Gerhard Richter

The similarity with the model in one of my pictures is not merely only apparent and unintentional, it is also completely useless.