image saturation Quotes

Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

I will not be just a tourist in a world of images.

With the profusion of images and the Internet, you can get any truth you want.

Photography has a meaning only if it exhausts all possible images.

We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach to show aspects of reality.

We are truly bombarded by images. To break through and be observed, let alone focused on, you have to have impact and power.

The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.

From the moment the tourist enters the site, everyone has to be photographed in front of every feature of note.... The photographic record of the visit has almost destroyed the very notion of actually looking.

With television, the image has been degenerated, no question. With the internet, commercials... people are much too cynical about image. It's stale. And all over the world, not just America.

I try not to get caught up in how our society is so inundated with images, and stay very focused on the work that I'm doing.

Our very sense of situation is now articulated by the camera's interventions. The omnipresence of cameras persuasively suggests that time consists of interesting events, events worth photographing. This, in turn, makes it easy to feel that any event, once underway, and whatever its moral character, should be allowed to complete itself - so that something else can be brought into the world, the photograph.

... the constant flow of images undercuts the sense that there's actually something wrong with the world. How can there really be a shortage of whooping cranes when you've seen a thousand images of them - seen ten times more images than there are actually whooping cranes left in the wild?

Everything that we see in our daily lives is more or less distorted by acquired habits and this is perhaps more evident in an age like ours when cinema posters and magazines present us every day with a flood of ready-made images which are to the eye what prejudices are to the mind. The effort to see things without distortion demands a kind of courage; and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he were seeing it for the first time.

I prepare for a shoot by saturating my brain with images that have different moods or expressions.