I'm not sure I agree with either of the following aphorisms, and anyway I couldn't agree with both of them because they're more or less contradictory, but I'm including them in the hope they'll lend this some erudition.

"It ain't the picture and it ain't the camera - it's the operator."

Simon Travaglia

"So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful."

Susan Sontag

I secretly run the world from

Rumson, New Jersey