Walter J. Phillips Quotes About Photography

Quotes about: Photography

• Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph cannot lie. Actually there never was a more unmitigated liar.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Photography, Liars, Lying

• It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Photography, Lenses, Instruments

• Not only does a lens distort forms, but the ordinary plate makes an unholy mess of colour in its tone relations. Yellow becomes black, and blue white. Black sunflowers against a white sky - what a travesty!

  Walter J. Phillips

  Photography, Blue, Sky

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