Quotes by Edmundo Desnoes

Edmundo Desnoes

…photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.

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Photography has fooled the world. There’s no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working behind the camera. They are not reality, they form part of the language of culture.

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Photography

Reality

The richness of our contemporary visual world must be seen as a danger. It is an overwhelming and oppressive world. A world that manifests itself fundamentally through the image is only a few steps from totalitarian manipulation.

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Weston’s sensual texture or Cartier-Bresson’s implacable composition are apt to close over themselves, attaining the perfection of a certain sensual and harmonious bliss. We see textures, volumes, equilibrium – and reality, open and ragged, is lost and transcended.

Perfection

Reality

Sensual

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Quotes by Edmundo Desnoes

Edmundo Desnoes

…photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.

Photography has fooled the world. There’s no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working behind the camera. They are not reality, they form part of the language of culture.

The richness of our contemporary visual world must be seen as a danger. It is an overwhelming and oppressive world. A world that manifests itself fundamentally through the image is only a few steps from totalitarian manipulation.

Weston’s sensual texture or Cartier-Bresson’s implacable composition are apt to close over themselves, attaining the perfection of a certain sensual and harmonious bliss. We see textures, volumes, equilibrium – and reality, open and ragged, is lost and transcended.

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