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We scrutinise a photograph with a sense that we are scrutinising the actual objects themselves, although they are distanced from us in time and space.
— David BaileyPioneering British fashion photographer who revolutionized 1960s portrait photography
Images signify- mainly- something 'out there' in space and time that they have to make comprehensible to us as abstractions.
— David BaileyPioneering British fashion photographer who revolutionized 1960s portrait photography
When we look at a photograph, knowing that it is a photograph, we have a distinctive kind of experience: a visual confrontation with remote but actual objects and events.
— David BaileyPioneering British fashion photographer who revolutionized 1960s portrait photography
Photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
— David BaileyPioneering British fashion photographer who revolutionized 1960s portrait photography
Images are mediations between the world and human beings. Human beings 'ex-ist,' i.e. the world is not immediately accessible to them and therefore images are needed to make it comprehensible.
— David BaileyPioneering British fashion photographer who revolutionized 1960s portrait photography
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