# songs about photography **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 13, 2008, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428 "2008-02-13T14:31:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/1 "2008-02-13T14:31:00Z")
So we were talking about Officer Obie’s twenty-seven 8x10 color glossy photographs with the circles and arrows and photograph on the back of each one (to be used as evidence about the Alice’s Restaurant Massacree, in case you don’t remember the song of nearly the same name). Then someone mentioned Paul Simon’s "Kodachrome’. Then we got surprisingly stuck on more songs about photography. this is of interest since one of us may have to give a talk about photographs soon (and audio may be a part of it). Making a CD for a photographer friend is also a possibility. I decided to attack the problem with thousands of the smartest, hippest people on the planet(plus a few total dipsticks), and ask the Teeming Millions. So, who’s got some songs about photography, that is about taking pictures, or about how photographs show the world, or (if there is one) about optical engineering? ---
**Author:** ![Meltdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Meltdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meltdown)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/2 "2008-02-13T14:34:28Z")
Turning Japanese – The Vapors Centerfold – The J. Geils Band Photograph – Camper Van Beethoven (or Ringo Starr) Photograph – Def Leppard ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/3 "2008-02-13T14:35:24Z")
The Who - Pictures of Lily The Cure - Pictures of You Def Leppard - Photograph ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/4 "2008-02-13T14:37:41Z")
Jim Croce - Photographs and Memories The Buggles - I am a Camera ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/5 "2008-02-13T14:42:49Z")
Jackson Browne – Fountains of Sorrow “Looking through some photographs I found inside a drawer I was taken by a photograph of you” ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/6 "2008-02-13T14:43:04Z")
Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow - Picture ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/7 "2008-02-13T14:43:20Z")
More of a metaphor, but “My Camera Never Lies” Bucks Fizz ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/8 "2008-02-13T14:48:17Z")
**Peter Hammill** - _The Polaroid_ ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/9 "2008-02-13T14:51:05Z")
Blondie - Picture this. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/10 "2008-02-13T14:54:32Z")
The Cure - Pictures of You And an old novelty song I once heard on Doctor Demento, Billy Connolly- You Take My Photograph (I Break Your Face) ---
**Author:** ![Meltdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Meltdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meltdown)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/11 "2008-02-13T15:02:07Z")
Polaroids – Shawn Colvin Hey Ya – Outkast (“Shake it like a polaroid picture”) The Picture – Loudon Wainwright III ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/12 "2008-02-13T15:05:39Z")
The Kinks: “Picture Book” and “People Take Pictures Of Each Other” J. Geils Band: “Freeze Frame” Quarterflash (IIRC): “Take Another Picture” A Flock of Seagulls: “Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)” ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/13 "2008-02-13T15:10:43Z")
Duran Duran - “Girls on Film” ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/14 "2008-02-13T15:15:10Z")
The Who – Pictures of Lily. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/15 "2008-02-13T15:16:02Z")
_Picture of Helen_ by **The Silos** _Photograph_ by \*\*Ringo Starr \*\* ( **Weezer** and **Nickelback** also have a song by that name). _Camera_ by \*\*R.E.M. \*\* ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/16 "2008-02-13T15:24:20Z")
Camera One - Josh Joplin Group (although technically referring to a TV or movie camera) Take a Picture - Filter ---
**Author:** ![jonesj2205](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecc23a/32.png) [@jonesj2205](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jonesj2205)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/17 "2008-02-13T16:01:11Z")
- The Photographers\* by Pete Seeger ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/18 "2008-02-13T16:39:20Z")
**Pictures of Matchstick Men** – Status Quo **Easter Parade** – “The photographers will snap us…” ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/19 "2008-02-13T17:21:17Z")
**Still Photo** by John Wesley Harding Another JWH song, **Here Comes the Groom** , has the lyrics _Right side for the photographs left side for the kids_ and if you listen very carefully, there’s a camera shutter sound after “photographs”. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/20 "2008-02-13T17:23:25Z")
Thompson Twins - _Hold Me Now_ - “I have a picture, pinned to my wall, an image of you and of me and we’re laughing and loving it all.” I guess I also have a new earworm. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428.md?page=2)