"What is obscene is all that is unnecessarily visible, without desire and without effect, all that usurps the so rare and so precious space of appearances."

"How can the image save its singularity in a world entirely turned into image?"

"Can the images, can we, resist the noise, the perpetual rumour of the world, through the silence of the image?"

"In order for the image, for the object, to emerge as such, it has to be put in suspense, in suspense of meaning, in suspense of the tumultuous operation of the world. It must be captured in the single fantastic moment which is the first encounter, the surprising moment, when things are not yet aware that we are here, when they have not yet been arranged by analytical order, when our absence is not yet fading away. But this instance is ephemeral. We should not be present to see it. This is what, in a sense, photographers do, hidden behind their lens, themselves vanishing, themselves having disappeared. For this is the price of making objects appear: the disappearance of the subject."

- Jean Baudrillard, The Violence of the Image and the Violence done to the Image

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Thank you, Baudrillard. That last point was beautiful.