The photographic image... is a message without a code.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.
The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.
Every photo you take communicates something about a moment in time - a brief slice of time of where you were, who you were with, and what you were doing.
It ain't the picture and it ain't the camera - it's the operator.
You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
A photograph is a moment - when you press the button, it will never come back.
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.