# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/21 "2008-02-13T17:28:08Z")
[QUOTE=Quercus] with the circles and arrows and photograph on the back of each one [/QUOTE] Paragraph! Paul Simon’s _Old Friends_ I have a photograph Preserve your memories That’s all that’s left you. Tommy Steele, _Flash bang wallop_ (from the musical _Half a Sixpence_): All lined up in a wedding group 'Ere we are for a photograph We’re all dressed up in a morning suit All trying hard not to laugh Since the early caveman in his fur Took a trip to Gretna Green There’s always been a photographer To record the 'appy scene… Hold it, flash bang wallop, what a picture! What a picture, what a photograph! ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/22 "2008-02-13T17:51:43Z")
Take A Picture, Filter. ---
**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, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/23 "2008-02-13T18:09:15Z")
Camera, Camera by Renaissance (one of their poppier, less successful albums, alas) ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/24 "2008-02-13T18:20:56Z")
Kodachrome - Paul Simon The Picture - Loudon Wainwright III ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/25 "2008-02-13T18:21:46Z")
**Nightswimming** - R.E.M. _the photograph on the dashboard taken years ago turned around backward so the windshield shows every streetlight reveals the picture in reverse_ ---
**Author:** ![flight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbce88/32.png) [@flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flight)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/26 "2008-02-13T18:27:45Z")
Tom Waits- Picture in a Frame ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/27 "2008-02-13T18:48:06Z")
Duran Duran— the Reflex (or so I’ve been told, you couldn’t tell from the lyrics!) ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/28 "2008-02-13T21:43:58Z")
“Night Photographs” - Barenaked Ladies > [@](#): > > _In photo one, a flower > Photo two is a drunk and naked girl > In photo three is my dog in the backyard > Oh, each frame captures the various subtleties of black > Each frame captures the various subtleties of black_ ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/29 "2008-02-13T21:57:12Z")
**Deep Purple** - _Pictures Of Home_ ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/30 "2008-02-13T22:03:59Z")
Well, my Kinks and Paul Simon suggestions being taken already, I’ve got: **Emmy Lou Harris and Mark Knopfler** - This Is Us (At least I assume the lyrics are about a couple looking through a photo album). ---
**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/31 "2008-02-13T23:52:18Z")
**Richard Shindell** - Are You Happy Now? ---
**Author:** ![Hodge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Hodge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hodge)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/32 "2008-02-14T00:16:45Z")
“I Turn My Camera On” by Spoon ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/33 "2008-02-14T00:55:51Z")
[QUOTE=Meurglys] **Peter Hammill** - _The Polaroid_ [/QUOTE] Hi **Meurglys** ; I wondered if you’d beat me in here! But the one I had in mind was **“Last Frame”** by Van der Graaf. _Oh, the red light, the silver, the black and the bromide…_ ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/34 "2008-02-14T04:01:37Z")
[QUOTE=want2know] **Pictures of Matchstick Men** – Status Quo and by Camper Van Beethoven, too. Autopilot Off “What I Want” Honor By August “[Only In Photographs](http://www.purevolume.com/honorbyaugust)” Dropping Daylight “Take A Photograph” The Last Goodnight “Pictures of You” ---
**Author:** ![Coil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Coil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coil)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428/35 "2008-02-14T12:24:34Z")
Depeche Mode - Photographic “I take pictures, photographic pictures” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-photography/437428.md?page=1)