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Photography is the act of "fixing" time, not of "expressing" the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the world or of beauty.


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If you were to ask me to define a photograph in a few words, I would say it is a fossil of light and time.



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I want to take a lot of Nasty photos.

I want to take a lot of Nasty photos.



The photographer who attempts to fit happily into the world by using the traditional perspective of the camera will end up falling into the hole of the "idea" he has dug for himself.

The photographer who attempts to fit happily into the world by using the traditional perspective of the camera will end up falling into the hole of the "idea" he has dug for himself.



I wanted to go to the end of photography.

I wanted to go to the end of photography.





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This page presents the quote "Photography is the act of &quot;fixing&quot; time, not of &quot;expressing&quot; the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the world or of beauty.". Author of this quote is Daido Moriyama. This quote is about time, vision, fixing, inadequate, cameras, photography, beauty, world,.