Andy Grundberg famous quotes

The photograph suggests that our image of reality is made up of images. It makes explicit the domination of mediation.
-- Andy Grundberg

#Reality #Photograph #Made

...the worry over media manipulation of photographs pales beside the threat that we will be exposed to an unedited, unvetted picture world where all images seem equally important and equally trivial.
-- Andy Grundberg

#Media #Worry #Important

Computer images, like camera images today, will be seen as representations of a simulated, second-degree reality with little or no connection to the unmediated world. This is one lesson we can learn from photographs, and especially from those of the last 25 years: images exist not to be believed, but to be interrogated.
-- Andy Grundberg

#Reality #Years #Cameras

[Postmodern photography] implies the exhaustion of the image universe: it suggests that a photographer can find more than enough images already existing in the world without the bother of making new ones.
-- Andy Grundberg

#Photography #World #Photographer

In the future, readers of newspapers and magazines will probably view news pictures more as illustrations than as reportage, since they can no longer distinguish between a genuine image and one that has been manipulated.
-- Andy Grundberg

#Views #Illustration #News

...photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum.
-- Andy Grundberg

#Photography #Stereotype #Repeats

...truth-telling may be an ethic, adopted by photojournalists as a behavior, but experience shows us that it is not embedded in the medium like silver salts in film.
-- Andy Grundberg

#May #Salt #Ethics

Facts cling to photographs like dust.
-- Andy Grundberg

#Dust #Facts #Photograph

Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.

Patience is the essence of clicking great Photographs!!

I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious,

A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.

The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.

He wasn't what sent me running. He was what had made me want to stay.

Others have been made fools of by the girls; but, this can never be with truth said of me. I most emphatically, in this instance,made a fool of myself.

'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.

God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.