songs about photography

Cafe Society
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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!

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Take A Picture, Filter.

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Camera, Camera by Renaissance (one of their poppier, less successful albums, alas)

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Kodachrome - Paul Simon

The Picture - Loudon Wainwright III

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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

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Tom Waits- Picture in a Frame

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Duran Duran— the Reflex (or so I’ve been told, you couldn’t tell from the lyrics!)

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“Night Photographs” - Barenaked Ladies

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Deep Purple - Pictures Of Home

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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).

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Richard Shindell - Are You Happy Now?

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“I Turn My Camera On” by Spoon

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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…

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[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”
Dropping Daylight “Take A Photograph”
The Last Goodnight “Pictures of You”

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Depeche Mode - Photographic
“I take pictures, photographic pictures”