Quotes about photo
photography love-is environment
I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography. John Sexton
photography trying months
I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop in Yosemite in 1973 I decided I wanted to try and see if I could pursue this for myself, and I'm still trying.
photography teaching phones
In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point.
photography kids saws
So when I became interested in photography and further being inspired by the work that I saw of Ansel and others, it was a natural extension to go back to these places that I knew as a kid and explore them with my camera.
photography eye editors
A photographer needs to be a good editor of negatives and prints! In fact, most of the prints I make are for my eyes only, and they are no good. I find the single most valuable tool in the darkroom is my trash can - that's where most of my prints end up.
photography unique media
I find the surface of a photograph a thing of beauty in and of itself, and it is this surface that makes a photograph unique relative to other two-dimensional media.
photography school college
And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college.
photography magic photographer
For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.
photography art men
To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography. Friedrich Durrenmatt
photography shy shields
When you're shy, a camera becomes an entry into life. It was a kind of shield I could hide my shyness behind, and it allowed me to become an active observer rather than a passive one. Lynn Johnston
photography coffee community
The emphasis in doing any in-depth photography is on building relationships, quality relationships. It's what I call thirty-cups-of-coffee-a-frame photography. You need to enter into the community - not just photographically, but intellectually and emotionally.
photography people looks
Photographs help people look at things they may not be able or may not want to look at. Until you can look at something, you can't change it. First you have to look at it, then you have a chance to understand it and can change it.
photography wall men
We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman. Ludwig Wittgenstein
photography perception shapes
I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception. James Balog
photography art class
At Columbia there's no performing arts department, so I was searching for it everywhere I could, and I took some photography classes and I ended up becoming fascinated with Eastern Religion, and ultimately it seemed to encompass the more abstract mind that I have. Jake Gyllenhaal
photography writing interesting
Photography and writing are marvelous distractions from painting. I might even have found movies more interesting than photography. I tried it a bit, but not enough. Jacques-Henri Lartigue
photography taken ask-me
Photography is something you learn to love very quickly. I know that many, many things are going to ask me to have their pictures taken and I will take them all.
photography magic odor
Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love.
photography art pain
What’s so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven’t even noticed. And it pains me not to have seen things in all their depth.
photography art important
I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.
photography photographer moments
Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.
photographer
I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that. Henry Rollins
photography hard-work thinking
The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them. Helmut Newton
photography work-out assistants
Technically, I have not changed very much. Ask my assistants. They'll tell you, I am the easiest photographer to work with. I don't have heavy equipment. I work out of one bag.
photography art gun
Some people`s photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that`s fine. But that`s not why I do them. I`m a gun for hire.
photography discipline challenges
The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to.
photography fashion interesting
What I find interesting is working in a society with certain taboos and fashion photography is about that kind of society. To have taboos, then to get around them that is interesting.
photography art dirty
Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.
photography art ideas
It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived I would never again pander to a magazine's requests or follow the ideas of art directors. I would only make images which were personal, which arose out of my own life.
photography art dirty
There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste
photography intellectual looks
Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.
photography art moving
The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.
photography inspiration moving
Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture.