Quotes about photo
photography struggle animal
You've got to struggle against the pollution of intelligence in order to become an animal with very sharp instincts - a sort of intuitive medium - so that to photograph becomes a magical act, and slowly other more suggestive images begin to appear behind the visible image, for which the photographer cannot be held responsible. Robert Doisneau
photography photographer ifs
If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.
photography exposure ifs
What's the point of getting killed if you've got the wrong exposure? Robert Capa
photography suffering records
It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.
photography war till-the-end
I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.
photography best-picture truth-is
The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.
photography photographer good-enough
If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.
photography spanish-civil-war
The pictures are there, and you just take them.
photographer picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words ifs
If a picture is worth a thousand words, photographers are worth a million. Tupac Shakur
photography order notable
In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The 'anything whatever' then becomes the sophisticated acme of value. Roland Barthes
photography eye sight
Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes. 'The necessary condition for an image is sight,'Janouch told Kafka; and Kafka smiled and replied: 'We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
photography thinking pensive
Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
photography trying may
For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere; perhaps in this image which produces Death while trying to preserve life. Contemporary with the withdrawal of rites, Photography may correspond to the intrusion, in our modern society, of an asymbolic Death, outside of religion, outside of ritual, a kind of abrupt dive into literal Death.
photograph certificates
Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
photography infinity photograph
What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
photography memories intellectual
A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic time; and the photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony.
photography invisible photograph
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
photography messages code
The photographic image... is a message without a code.
photography artist years
There is something abominable about cameras, because they possess the power to invent many worlds. As an artist who has been lost in this wilderness of mechanical reproduction for many years, I do not know which world to start with. I have seen fellow artists driven to the point of frenzy by photography. Robert Smithson
photography communication violent
Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts. Robert Rauschenberg
photograph
There are parts of me I only recognize from photographs. Sarah Kay
photography evil cameras
Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good. Wallace Stevens
photography thinking media
Stay open to as many new tools and think of as many ways you can to utilize them to your advantage. This not only includes equipment and hardware but also software or apps like Sun Seeker and social media outlets like Instagram and Twitter to build community. Vincent Laforet
photography mean unique
Images of people, cities, and landscapes from the air tell a unique story about our personal space and how we relate to one another. I've always aimed to address the bigger picture and later trends. In many ways, what a photographer does is give others a chance to step back and look at their world and gain perspective on where we stand, and what that means.
photography art technology
I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design. William Landay
photography alcohol should
Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it. Walter Sickert
photography father firsts
I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist. Winona Ryder
photography desire facts
There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit. William S. Burroughs
photography art actors
Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to connected because it connects you to architecture, it connects you to painting, it connects you to writers, to actors. It connects you to really all of the arts. Wim Wenders
photography views may
Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity. Will Self
photography thinking purpose
I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose. W. Eugene Smith
photography responsibility thinking
The photographer must bear the responsibility for his work and its effect …[for] photographic journalism, because of its tremendous audience reached by publications using it, has more influence on public thinking than any other branch of photography.
photograph ifs
You can't photograph if you're not in love.