It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
It ain't the picture and it ain't the camera - it's the operator.
I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.
In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
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.
I look at the camera as sort of a missing link between motion picture photography and still photography.
The camera is not your eye, and it's not the eye of the audience. I don't think it's my eye, either. It belongs to the film.
There's something inimical about the camera and song.
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