We know the original relation of the theater and the cult of the Dead: the first actors separated themselves from the community by playing the role of the Dead: to make oneself up was to designate oneself as a body simultaneously living and dead: the whitened bust of the totemic theater, the man with the painted face in the Chinese theater, the rice-paste makeup of the Indian Katha-Kali, the Japanese No mask .. Now it is this same relation which I find in the Photograph; however 'lifelike' we strive to make it (and this frenzy to be lifelike can only be our mythic denial of an apprehension of death), Photography is a kind of primitive theater, a kind of Tableau Vivant, a figuration of the motionless and made-up face beneath which we see the dead. Roland Barthes
Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.
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Marc Riboud
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Dorothea Lange
When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.
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Aleksandar Hemon
Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.
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Ansel Adams
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
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George Bernard Shaw
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