Quote by John Berger
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. – John Berger

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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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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon. – John Berger

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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open. – John Berger

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

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I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help. – Ruth Bernhard

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No photographer is as good as the simplest camera. – Edward Steichen

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Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film. – Author Unknown

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