...there is no everyday activity which does not aspire to be photographed, filmed or videotaped. For there is a general desire to be endlessly rememb…

- Vilem Flusser

Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers... have not understood information. What they produce are camera memories, not information, and…

- Vilem Flusser

The act of photography is like going on a hunt in which photographer and camera merge into one indivisible function. This is a hunt for new states of…

- Vilem Flusser

He who writes must master the rules of grammar. He who shoots photographs needs only to follow the instructions as given by the camera.... This leads…

- Vilem Flusser

With every (informative) photograph, the photographic program becomes poorer by one possibility while the photographic universe becomes richer by one…

- Vilem Flusser

The task of a philosophy of photography is to reflect upon [the] possibility of freedom - and thus its significance - in a world dominated by apparat…

- Vilem Flusser

Photographers encode their concepts as photographic images so as to give others information, so as to produce models for them and thereby to become i…

- Vilem Flusser

Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols.

- Vilem Flusser