With every (informative) photograph, the photographic program becomes poorer by one possibility while the photographic universe becomes richer by one realization.
Vilem FlusserPhotographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols.
Vilem FlusserBoth those taking snaps and documentary photographers... have not understood information. What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better they do it, the more they prove the victory of the camera over the human being.
Vilem FlusserPhotographers encode their concepts as photographic images so as to give others information, so as to produce models for them and thereby to become immortal in the memory of others.
Vilem Flusser