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Songs about photography!


A list of songs in which photography is one of the main subjects.

  • Aperture – Sleeping At Last

  • Are You Happy Now? – Richard Shindell, from the album Courier, 2002

  • Birth of Serpents – The Mountain Goats

  • Camera – R.E.M.

  • Camera – The Editors

  • Camera-Shy – The Lucksmiths

  • Centerfold – J. Geils Band, 1981

  • The Camera Eye – Rush

  • The Cameraeye – Billy Corgan, from the album The Future Embrace, 2005

  • Click, click, click, click – Bishop Allen

  • Distant Camera – Neil Young

  • Electric Eye – Judas Priest

  • Every Picture Tells a Story – Rod Stewart, 1971

  • F-stop Blues – Jack Johnson, from the album Brushfire Fairytales, 2001

  • Flashbulb Eyes – Arcade Fire, 2013

  • Fountain of Sorrow - Jackson Browne, 1974

  • Freeze Frame – J. Geils Band, 1981

  • Gentlemen Take Polaroids – Japan, 1980

  • Girls on Film – Duran Duran, 1981

  • Hey Ya! – Outkast (Shake it like a Polaroid picture)

  • I'll Wait – Van Halen, 1984

  • I Turn My Camera On – Spoon

  • Inaudible Melodies – Jack Johnson, from the album Brushfire Fairytales, 2001

  • Into the Lens – Yes, 1980

  • Itchin' on a Photograph – Grouplove, 2011

  • Kamera – Wilco, from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, 2002

  • Kevin Carter – Manic Street Preachers

  • Kodachrome – Paul Simon

  • Life thru a Lens – Robbie Williams, 1997

  • My Camera Never Lies – Bucks Fizz

  • Panama – Sailor

  • Paparazzi – Lady Gaga

  • Peg – Steely Dan

  • People Take Pictures of Each Other – The Kinks from the album The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society, 1968

  • Perfect Photo – Dala

  • Photo – Ryan Cabrera

  • Photo Jenny – Belle and Sebastian, from the album Push Barman to Open Old Wounds, 2005

  • Photobooth – Death Cab For Cutie

  • Photobooth – Friendly Fires

  • Photograph – Def Leppard, 1983

  • Photograph – Diane Birch

  • Photograph – Jamie Cullum

  • Photograph – Nickelback

  • Photograph – Ed Sheeran

  • Photograph – Ringo Starr

  • Photograph – Weezer

  • Photograph – The Verve Pipe

  • Photographic – Depeche Mode

  • Picture Book – The Kinks from the album The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society, 1968

  • A Picture of Me (Without You) – Lorrie Morgan

  • Picture Perfect – Every Avenue

  • Picture This – Blondie, 1978

  • Pictures of Home – Deep Purple

  • Pictures of Lily – The Who

  • Pictures of You – The Last Goodnight

  • Pictures of You – The Cure

  • Picture of You – Boyzone

  • Picture of You – WAX

  • #SELFIE – The Chainsmokers

  • Send a Picture of Mother – Johnny Cash

  • Sure Shot – Beastie Boys from the album Ill Communication, 1994

  • Take a Picture – Filter

  • Telephoto Lens – The Bongos

  • The Picture – Loudon Wainwright III

  • The Girl in the Picture - Kate Ceberano and Wendy Matthews

  • This is not a Photograph – Mission of Burma

  • Turning Japanese – The Vapors

  • Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You) – A Flock of Seagulls

  • Photographs – Rihanna

  • Jean-Michel Jarre - Souvenir de Chine

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