In the long run I don't think anyone can overlook these images of hunger, that people can ignore all my pictures - no, definitely not. And even if only a vague impression remains, in time this will create a basis that will help people distinguish between what is good and what is objectionable.
God is worshipped only inpictures, images, idols.
As photojournalists, we supply information to a world that is overwhelmed with preoccupations and full of people who need the company of images. . . . We pass judgement on what we see, and this involves an enormous responsibility.
I don't want what you see on the screen to just be a brief notion of pleasure but something that lingers. The idea is to have the images revisited. I want it to be something that also enhances the soul. I want the moment of pleasure to produce an attachment.
A student researching into my work has actually traced the newspapers and magazines where I found theses images and has found out that many of them illustrate a collection of gruesome stories, murders and suicides which contrast with the images used. There is a contrast between the message carried by the text and that suppressed by the illustration.
He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world.
I haven't seen too many images that have impressed me!
It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women.
"Global culture" is of course not a culture: it's the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.
What good are images if people understand them?
A Witch's work is mind work and utilizes powerful metaphors, allegories, and images that unlock the powers of the mind.
Images contaminate us like viruses.
Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies. . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, swamped in the repeated personal crises of the aging preadolescent; all are familiar images of American society. They are signs of private nightmares of incoherence and disorder in broken climaxes where technologies in pursuit of mastery create ever-worsening problems - private nightmares expanded to a social level.
It would be wrong of me to suppose that just because I can form private mental images, that everyone can. As Francis Galton and William James long ago showed, a small proportion of adults-and some of these extremely intelligent-are unable to form such visual images. Berkeley's point is that it would be equally arrogant for these non-thinkers or non-image formers to claim that everyone is like them in the relevant respect. The temptation to pontificate in that way reveals a narrowness and unwillingness to see the world from another perspective.
My responsibility as a photographer, to my subjects, is to know what's going to happen with my images.