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There's a kind of power thing about the camera. I mean everyone knows you've got some edge. You're carrying some magic which does something to them. It fixes them in a way.
A webcam that Iceland's environmental agency had set up.
You see the world much better through a camera
I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.
The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.
I hate cameras. I hate cameras and I hate camera phones. The camera's my worst enemy and my best friend. It's the way I convey my emotions to the world without saying a word, so I use it. People always say, 'You come alive as soon as the camera's on!'
You pick up a camera because something has been revealed to you in the landscape or in the human-scape. And you have no choice because it's a gift. And it's like, oh right, I better start doing this!
Today, the smartphone in your pocket has a high-quality digital camera. Everyone - not just artists - is a photographer, and the explosion of photos taken annually proves it.
Nowadays, everyone has a camera phone, and you have to be careful about being caught out there looking crazy and ending up on the Internet.
The use of the camera has always been for me a tool of investigation, a reason to travel, to not mind my own business, and often to get into trouble.
I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
The camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to conjure visions of the future. But by the time the image reaches the eyes of the viewer, it belongs to the past, taking on the status of something retrieved.
People think that all cameramen do is point the camera at things, but it's a heck of a lot more complicated than that.
The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical problem of how to humanize, how to overcome a machine on which we are thoroughly dependent ... the camera ...
Technology has now enabled a type of ubiquitous surveillance that had previously been the province of only the most imaginative science fiction writers.
The angry mob of villagers wield camera phones, the twenty-first century equivalent of pitchforks and flaming torches.
We do not make photographs with our cameras. We make them with our minds, with our hearts, with our ideas.
Photography is thus brought within reach of every human being who desires to preserve a record of what he sees ... and enables the fortunate possessor to go back by the light of his own fireside to scenes which would otherwise fade from memory and be lost.
The camera can capture thought in a way that's quite surprising and shocking. You can become very simple and minimal in your work and communicate a lot with just a finger or an eyebrow, or a look, or a glance.
If you invite someone into your front room you can't be surprised when there are suddenly people outside your windows with cameras.
Imagine the power of surfacing what's happening in the world through images, and potentially other types of media in the future, to each and every person who holds a mobile phone.
The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.
The camera is as much a part of my everyday life as talking or eating or sex.
Since a camera is something too heavy for women and initially made for men, you need a good cameraman.
A digital camera has to be kept in check like a racehorse.
I can't even tell you the anxiety I get from being around those cameras!
If it can happen in your mind, it can happen in your camera
speculated that cameras are effective only when they are actively monitored by law enforcement agents, who act quickly upon the information obtained by the cameras.
There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical approach without much imagination. They look, but they don't see.
Where are they going to get a camera? I asked. I don't know, said Noehmi. They'll probably get sidetracked along the way. Or they'll come back with paint instead, or beer, or some new idea for a circus or something. They're social anarchists.
You think the only thing looking at you is this steel thing, but behind the camera is this living, breathing person operating the camera whose job it is to watch you.
The camera is the eye of history.
A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.
Photos tend to organize chaos, to define what we're doing here. It is essential that individuals' voices depict the world around us, as we are increasingly controlled by large institutions, large companies and large systems.
The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.
The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time.
Camera phones threaten to turn everyone into amateur paparazzi. We are witnessing our personal space shrink because of the way technology is being used.
When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment's notice.
The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.
The camera can photograph thought.
It ain't the picture and it ain't the camera - it's the operator.
It is probably well on the conservative side to estimate that during the past ten to fifteen years the camera has destroyed a thousand pairs of eyes, corrupted ten thousand, and seriously deceived a hundred thousand, for every one pair that it has opened, and taught.
Despite having been awarded the dubious honor of arthood, all photography is still perceived as having one foot in the real world, a toe in the chilly waters of verisimilitude, no matter how often it is demonstrated that photographs can and do lie.
A camera exposes more than just an image. It also exposes the photographer.
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera ... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
The experience of the individual has become the experience of the people, thanks solely to the camera.
The camera's not a camera, really. It's an open door we need to walk through. It's up to us to keep moving our feet.
In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.
The camera was another weapon in the wars of domination.
Pictures ... are also opinions ... [they] set down what the camera operator sees and he sees what he wants to see and what he loves and hates and pities and is proud of.
Everywhere you go, people have recorded or captured events in real time on their mobile phones. It becomes one of the first questions you ask when you go in to investigate something.
Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love.
For the first time in the history of photography, we can study the real-time production of snapshot making - globally! (On Flickr and other photosharing websites)
Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.
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.
In a world of disturbing images, the general body of photography is bland, dealing complacently with nature and treating our preconceptions as insights. Strange, private worlds rarely slip past our guard ...
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
Before the camera, you only had secondhand takes - someone had to tell you what they saw or draw a picture of it or sing a song. Because of the camera, sometimes to our horror, we now know everything that happens in the world - things that before we were sheltered from.
It is the spectators who make the pictures.
Cinematographers couldn
I'm not comfortable around cameras.
The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral part of the feedback loop which actively shapes the content we are fed.
When you're on camera, you can't think of all the technical things.
How do you photograph data?
The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue.
People who wave digital cameras at shows are the same people who sit in front of you at hockey games and wear those giant foam-rubber fingers that say, We're number one!'
Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment ... and therefore for the fostering of a healthy human race and even very likely for its survival.
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.
I hope we'll be able to see that in our lifetime: the end of the camera! When I'm in Paris, I'll buy a big bottle of champagne and I'll save it for that day, for the day when they'll be no more camera.
Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images.
The simple act of having a camera, not a cell phone, but a camera-camera, there's a kind of a heightened perceptional awareness that occurs. Like, I could walk from here to the highway in two minutes, but if I had a camera, that walk could take me two hours.
In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture.
Using iPads as cameras, for example, is like taking pictures with a cafeteria tray.
Photography is my method for defining the confusing world that rushes constantly toward me. It is my defensive attempt to reduce our daily chaos to a set of understandable images.
New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear. To find these images is to dare to see, to be aware of what there is and how it is. The photographer not only gets information, he gives information about life.
Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There was a purity to them that wasn't planned; it was realism.
The preference most of them had for seeing through their camera, rather than looking at the real thing, and so on.
Nowadays everyone has a camera and the Internet means everything is instantly accessible. Unlike some photographers, I don't see this as a problem. If anything interesting happens in the world today, there will be someone around to record it.
The act of photography is like going on a hunt in which photographer and camera merge into one indivisible function. This is a hunt for new states of things, situations never seen before, for the improbable, for information.
To became neighbours and friends instead of journalists. This is the way to make your finest photographs.
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.
Camera-phones are like nuclear power plants: bad people will turn them into evil, good people will put them to good use.
There is a camera is between a man and a woman.
Most people understand on some level that there are a lot of surveillance cameras out there, but very few people really get it. There are forty million surveillance cameras in the United States alone and the number keeps growing. You never go through a day without being recorded.
Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well ... yesterday's news.
People use GoPros to capture the experiences they are passionate about.
The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.
There is a narrative behind every image. I often imagine being able to see the photographer standing behind the camera, or perhaps crouching or running with it.
We used the camera only as a means of expression and as a visual medium that offers possibilities found in no other artistic technique, possibilities that the eye cannot catch in their totality. We tried to establish a characteristic vision of photography.
Everyone concedes that photography is now a medium of exchange as much as a mode of documentation ... photographing has become the visual equivalent of cellphone chatter.
Photography helps people to see.
In the age of cellphone cameras, everybody thinks of themselves as a tracker.
The important thing is not the camera but the eye.