Geoffrey Batchen Quotes

#1. Everyone concedes that photography is now a medium of exchange as much as a mode of documentation ... photographing has become the visual equivalent of cellphone chatter.

Geoffrey Batchen

#2. [A digital snapshot] is meant primarily as a means of communication, and the images being sent are almost as ephemeral as speech, so rarely are they printed and made physical.

Geoffrey Batchen

#3. Curious how these early linguistic abilities are so fragile, how unthinkingly and easily the brain lets them go.

William Boyd

#4. All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world. This is almost a perceptual necessity; in order to see what the photograph is of, we must first repress our consciousness of what the photograph is.

Geoffrey Batchen

#5. The campaigns and the models in them create the fantasy around the brand. It has always been about having strong images. Without that, we could not have gone into all the categories we did. It really has been the foundation from where the house of Guess was built.

Paul Marciano

#6. Over the past two decades, the boundary between photography and other media like painting, sculpture, or performance has become increasingly porous. It would seem that each medium has absorbed the other, leaving the photographic residing everywhere, but nowhere in particular.

Geoffrey Batchen

#7. I feel like I'm one of the best strikers in MMA. I just need the time to prove it. You haven't really seen my full potential yet.

Anthony Pettis

#8. Most importantly, postmodernism comes down on the side of photography and power, not photography as power. As a consequence, photography continues to be conceived as an inconsequential vehicle or passage for real powers that always originate elsewhere.

Geoffrey Batchen

#9. Culture, as Indian people understood it, was basically a lifestyle by which a people acted. It was self-expression, but not a conscious self-expression. Rather, it was an expression of the essence of a
people.

Vine Deloria Jr.

#10. Clay Aiken ran for Congress in North Carolina. But he didn't make it. Clay Aiken is famous for coming in second in a TV popularity contest that most people got fed up with years ago. He also lost on 'American Idol.'

Craig Ferguson

#11. I knew I was treading on thin ice. Criticism of anyone's art, no matter how good the intentions, could be risky business.

Emma Scott

#12. Human experience comes suspended in the sickly-sweet amniotic fluid of commercial photography. And a world normally animated by abrasive differences is blithely reduced to a single, homogeneous National Geographic way of seeing.

Geoffrey Batchen