What about the moon rocks, the laser reflector discs and the photographs of astronauts on the moon? The Apollo samples are not rocks gathered during moon walks … The December 1966 issue of National Geographic explains why no such reflectors are needed to bounce signals off the moon ... The photographs also fail under critical analysis: there are flags waving in the wind even though the moon sits in a vacuum ... Just the sheer perfection of the set-ups and appearances of the photos ... There is no fog on the film from immense temperature variations, no discouloration from radiation, no lightning streaks from micro-meteorites passing by. Apollo Zero, 2009
There is only one full-bodied picture of him [Neil Armstrong] on the moon. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon, 2001
It is clear that these scenes were lit with artificial light. These shadows which are cast at different angles are evidence that a second light source is being used. ibid.
A representative of mankind may well have gone to the moon in 1969 ... Images of the Apollo landings are not a true and accurate record of such an event. In our view the Apollo pictures were faked. David S Percy, co-author Dark Moon: Apollo & The Whistleblowers
After the camera has zoomed in, surprisingly, something comes between the camera and the earth partly obscuring the view. Obviously this could not happen if they were shooting directly out of the window. David S Percy
It would be totally impossible for an object to get in front of the reticule on the developed image. David S Percy
Photography threw down a huge challenge to those who painted or sculpted the human body. Tim Marlow, The Nude: The Enlightenment, Sky Arts 2012
[William Henry] Jackson’s photographs and [Thomas] Moran’s watercolours had an entirely unexpected outcome. Congressmen in Washington were so impressed by the spectacular images that they passed a bill designated the Yellowstone region, America’s first national park. Andrew Graham-Dixon, Art of America 1/3, BBC 2011
I look at animal photographs all the time. Francis Bacon, cited The Art of Francis Bacon
Photography has altered completely this whole thing of figurative painting. ibid.
The last thing I wanted to be was photographic in any way. ibid.
I had once photographed Hitler. I was nine, in 1931, and was walking around Berlin with my governess and had my camera with me. I was fascinated by him because he had huge bodyguards and he was really very small. Lucian Freud
The British government warns that if anyone is found taking photographs of the war, they will face the firing squad. British Military Order 1917 No.1137
The President’s photographer is almost always around ... One of three photographers at the White House. Obama’s White House
In an average week the President’s camera time will take up to twenty thousand shots. bid.
Their intimate relationship and access to the President means they can capture unique images ordinary press photographers can’t. ibid.
President Nixon severely restricted his press photographer, Olly Atkins. On the night of his resignation speech to the nation, before the television broadcast began, the President had this ultimate and most revealing exchange with Atkins: ‘Have you got an extra camera in case the lights go out? Olly? No. Only the CBS crew now is to be in this room during this – only the crew. No. No. There will be no pictures.’ ibid.
The answer lies here – in this photograph. Code 7 Victim 5 1964 starring Lex Barker & Ronald Fraser & Walter Rilla & Dietmar Schonherr & Gert van den Bergh & Howard Davis & Percy Sieff & Gustel Gundelach & Sophia Spentzos et al, director Robert Lynn, Inspector to old man
The shock of the rude nude photograph. Rude Britannia II: Presents Bawdy Songs & Lewd Photographs, BBC 2010
A new technology to further undermine Victorian values: photography. ibid.
Rude photographs became affordable and available. ibid.
He [Muhammad Ali] was a photographer’s dream. Howard Bingham, best friend & photographer Focus: Muhammad Ali
In 1938 a book arrived at Harold Ickes’ office ... Stunning images ... captured by an aspiring photographer, Ansel Adams. Ken Burns, The National Parks: Not For the Rich Alone 1936-1945, PBS 2009
Adams ... had photographed the Manzanar Internment Camp. ibid.
I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style. Ken Burns
If you look at the Shroud of Turin as it appears to the naked eye you see a negative image of a human being. And if you take another photograph of that, you produce a positive image of that human being, which means the Shroud is acting as a negative. And that in itself is a very good clue that it was made photographically. Professor Nicholas Allen, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
If there is silver bound in the linen at a molecular level it would be the final support for the photographic hypothesis. Professor Nicholas Allen
Although the camera wasn’t invented until the nineteenth century its forerunner – an optical device called a camera obscurer – had been around since 400 B.C. To test his theory Allen sets out to recreate the Shroud image by building a camera obscurer. Allen hangs a life-size model of a human body outside a building. Inside, he has blacked out a room, and in the wall he has placed a round crystal lens. Allen then stretches a length of cloth over a frame. The cloth has been soaked in silver sulphate which makes it light sensitive just like photographic film. All the materials he uses were available in fifteenth century Italy, the time when da Vinci was at the height of his creative powers. Once the lens is uncovered, light streams into the room and projects a photographically perfect upside-down image of the body on to the linen. This is the same principle as a film camera. Only here the image is projected on to light-sensitive cloth. The Da Vinci Shroud: Revealed, Channel 5 2009
We are looking at a photograph of a crucified man. Leonardo took a body from one of the stock of bodies he dissected for his anatomical research, and he truly crucified it. Lynn Picknett, co-author The Turin Shroud – How Leonardo Da Vinci Fooled History
Religious believers and scientists alike were suddenly caught up in the mystery. The Shroud’s exact age remains uncertain. But it’s known to date back to at least the 1300s. This means that if the Shroud is a forgery as many contend then the forger created a complex photo-negative image at least 500 years before the invention of photography. The Real Face of Jesus? History 2010
It seems to be imprinted like a photographic negative. Remaking the Shroud, National Geographic 2010
How could it be a medieval fake when photography wasn’t invented until at least six hundred years later? ibid.
Photography: it was William Henry Fox Talbot 1841 who succeeded where others failed. The Genius of Invention IV: Visual Image, BBC 2013
The camera/obscurer is at least a thousand years old. ibid.
[Louis] Daguerre became rich and famous … Talbot – well he got terrible press. ibid.
Darkroom: I like to shoot pictures at night time and dusk because I think they have much more impact. Don McCullin, interview Night on Film: An A-Z of the Dark, BBC 2011
Nobody could squeeze any more from a negative than what I’ve done by the time I’ve printed. ibid.
I know there’s no turning back, and I know there’s no other occupation that I could settled down in if I had to stop photography for some reason or other. I just don’t know what the hell I’d do with myself. I’m just no good at anything else in the world other than taking pictures. ibid.
All you can do with most ordinary photographs is stare at them – they stare back, blankly – and presently your concentration begins to fade. They stare you down. I mean, photography is all right if you don’t mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralysed Cyclops – for a split second. David Hockney, 1984
The biggest photographic retrospective so far. Hockney on Photography, Sky Arts 2014
‘The camera remember is older than photography.’ ibid. Hockney
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organisation of forms which give that event its proper expression. Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer & artist