James Agee Cameras Quotations

As small, quick, foolproof cameras became generally available, moreover, the camera has been used so much and so flabbily by so many people that it has acted as a sort of contraceptive on the ability to see.

The camera is just a machine, which records with impressive and as a rule very cruel faithfulness.

The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time.