Edmundo Desnoes famous quotes

Photographs offer more than decisive moments. They are not alone, they add and subtract and change with time. They are metaphors for our lives... Even a static photograph can change in the blink of a day or decade.
-- Edmundo Desnoes

#Add #Moments #Metaphor

Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working behind the camera. They are not reality, they form part of the language of culture.
-- Edmundo Desnoes

#Photography #Reality #Men

Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed.
-- Edmundo Desnoes

#Photograph #Wells #Observers

...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.
-- Edmundo Desnoes

#Photography #Lying #Literature

The richness of our contemporary visual world must be seen as a danger. It is an overwhelming and oppressive world. A world that manifests itself fundamentally through the image is only a few steps from totalitarian manipulation.
-- Edmundo Desnoes

#World #Manipulation #Steps

Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man.
-- Edmundo Desnoes

#Crush #Men #Egypt

Weston's sensual texture or Cartier-Bresson's implacable composition are apt to close over themselves, attaining the perfection of a certain sensual and harmonious bliss. We see textures, volumes, equilibrium - and reality, open and ragged, is lost and transcended.
-- Edmundo Desnoes

#Reality #Perfection #Sensual

The Latin American photographer has the possibility, and the means, for naming the things of our world, for demonstrating that there is another kind of beauty, that the faces of the First World are not the only ones. These Indian, black, plundered white and mestizo faces are the first element defining the demographic content of our photography.
-- Edmundo Desnoes

#Photography #Latin #Mean

If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.

Yoga adds years to your life and life to your years.

I'm not able to go in with an act that I use month to month year to year all the time. It's constantly evolving and changing and that keeps me on my toes but certainly adds to the challenge.

Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God

There is only the constant knowledge and enjoyment of the Heart, moment to moment, through the instant of all conditions of appearance and disappearance. Of this I am perfectly certain. I am That.

Right now, I'm standing behind the glass, and I guess that's a metaphor for how my life will be going forward.

A world ends when its metaphor has died.

I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.