Quote by John Berger
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget. – John Berger

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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. – John Berger

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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasnt changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman. – John Berger

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When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls! – Ted Grant

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Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts. – Minor White

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The photographic image… is a message without a code. – Roland Barthes

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The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth. – Harold Evans, “Pictures on a Page”

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