Rhys Thomson > Rhys's Quotes

“Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past.”
― Susan Sontag, On Photography

“The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. Adept of the joys of watching, connoisseur of empathy, the flâneur finds the world 'picturesque.”
― Susan Sontag, On Photography

“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.”
― John Berger, Ways of Seeing

“All publicity works upon anxiety.”
― John Berger, Ways of Seeing

“The (i)studium(i) is ultimately always coded, the (i)punctum is not)...”
― Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography