Vilem Flusser Quotes

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

Photographers 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.

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

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