Photography Quotes

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Photography is a means of recording forever the things one sees for a moment.

[Photography] is better than memory, because it not only recalls things to our mind, but it enables us to show others, with absolute realism, what we have done, where we have been, what we have seen, even what we have thought. And it is more accurate than memory.

A curious thing about modern lenses, as Geoffrey Crawley points out in the British Journal of Photography, is that the closer we get to eliminating all aberrations in our lenses, the further away we get from the lens that makes a pleasing picture, because "residual aberrations" help make a photograph more life-like. Image quality includes detail and gradation. And the "perfect" lens (without soft gradation) may ruin our picture.