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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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature. – John Berger

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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me its something that theatre can do, but its rare; its very rare. – John Berger

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Nakedness reveals itself.
Nudity is placed on display.
The nude is condemned to never
being naked.
Nudity is a form of dress. – John Berger

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Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. – Ambrose Bierce

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The camera can photograph thought. Its better than a paragraph of sweet polemic. – Dirk Bogarde

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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. – Ansel Adams

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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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