Songs About Photography
This list is just a start. Please add more to the comments section. If you have any thoughts about the first photography reference in a song, please let me know!
Cindy of a Thousand Lives – Billy Bragg
People Take Pictures Of Each Other – The Kinks
Picture Book – The Kinks
I turn my camera on – Spoon
Carry this picture – Dashboard Confessional
Paint A Vulgar Picture – The Smiths
Getting the picture – Jimmy Buffett
Panorama – The Cars
Picture – Kid Rock featuring Sheryl Crow
The Picture – Hubert Kah
Local Boy in the photograph - Stereophonics
F-stop blues – Jack Johnson
Photographs and Memories – Jim Croce
Life through a lens- Robbie Williams
Photograph – Weezer
Photograph – Nickelback
Photograph – Ringo Starr
Photograph – Johnny Mathis
Photograph- The Verve Pipe
Take a Picture – Filter
Pictures of You- The Cure
Distant camera – Neil Young
Please just take these photos from my hands - Snow Patrol
This Is Not A Photograph – Mission of Burma
Send a picture of Mother - Johnny Cash
Camera – R.E.M.
Freeze Frame – J. Geils Band
Camera One – Josh Joplin Group
Every picture tells a story - Rod Stewart
I Am A Camera – The Buggles
Into the lens – Yes (same song as I Am A Camera – The Buggles)
The Camera Eye – Rush
What about the song Snapshot by Sylvia?
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In reference to Simon’s lyrics they did in fact “take my Kodachrome away” unfortunately for Alex Webb and others. I fortunately started eventually using color negative film, so I am not as disappointed as others.
Songs maybe to consider;
J Giels- angel in a centerfold
Jackson Browne-fountain of sorrow (at the moment my camera happened to find you and so on)
A whole band- Camera Obscura
Photograph by Jamie Cullum
3 x 5 by John Mayer
Persephone’s Bees – Photo Album: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhbuUprAhWw
And its a bit long but the Philip Glass opera The Photographer.
Kodachrome by Paul Simon???