Quotes about photo
photograph
Richard Prince's most famous photograph was made by me. Sam Abell
photography simplicity special
As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
photography energetic editorials
Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.
photography strong thinking
And that desire-the strong desire to take pictures-is important. It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing. Whether working or not, photographers are looking, seeing, and thinking about what they see, a habit that is both a pleasure and a problem, for we seldom capture in a single photograph the full expression of what we see and feel. It is the hope that we might express ourselves fully-and the evidence that other photographers have done so-that keep us taking pictures.
photography wall ohio
'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the most biographical of my photographs - an abstract image of the landscape and life of northern Ohio where I grew up and first practiced photography.
photography mistake mad
A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.
photography appeals deny
Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.
photography vivid scene
Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid mental images of scenes I cared for and failed to photograph. It is the edgy existence within me of these unmade images that is the only assurance that the best photographs are yet to be made.
photography light important
How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
photography moving thoughtful
But there is more to a fine photograph than information. We are also seeking to present an image that arouses the curiosity of the viewer or that, best of all, provokes the viewer to think-to ask a question or simply to gaze in thoughtful wonder. We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make. It is the kind of picture that makes you want to pick up your own camera again and go to work.
photography mean priorities
My first priority when taking pictures is to achieve clarity. A good documentary photograph transmits the information of the situation with the utmost fidelity; achieving it means understanding the nuances of lighting and composition, and also remembering to keep the lenses clean and the cameras steady.
photography art desire
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
photography littles matter
It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.
photography photographer best-work
My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
photography photographer asks
I like photographers-you don't ask questions. Ronald Reagan
photography oil fiction
Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting. Robertson Davies
photography thinking knowing
I think that it was a great advantage to go into photography not knowing much about it. Not thinking. I think one of the problems with many photographers today is that they never see for themselves, but just like everybody else... Robert Mapplethorpe
photography unexpected unexpected-things
I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.
photography people waiting
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
photography children sunday
I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for a child. It still shows in how I arrange things. It's always little altars.
photography zero goes-on
With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.
photography years two
If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make sculpture.
photography hands sake
I never liked photography. Not for the sake of photography. I like the object. I like the photographs when you hold them in your hand.
photography wake-up essentials
If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up.
photography perfect today
I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.
photography photographer great-photography
The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.
photography looks unions
In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything. Tom Clancy
photography believe being-true
I believe that this whole question of some photography being true and some untrue is a non-question. Photography is not objective; it never was objective. Tibor Kalman
photography eras rays
A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography. Roman Jakobson
photography artist practice
Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot — or will not — achieve the mastery of a profession. But in the field of photographic practice, it is the amateur, on the contrary, who is the assumption of the professional: for it is he who stands closer to the (i)noeme(i) of Photography. Roland Barthes
photography winter secret
The Winter Photograph was my Ariadne, not because it would help me discover a secret thing (monster or treasure), but because it would tell me what constituted that thread which drew me toward Photography. I had understood that henceforth I must interrogate the evidence of Photography, not from the viewpoint of pleasure, but in relation to what we romantically call love and death.
photography class two
The Photograph belongs to that class of laminated objects whose two leaves cannot be separated without destroying them both: the windowpane and the landscape, and why not: Good and Evil, desire and its object: dualities we can conceive but not perceive... Whatever it grants to vision and whatever its manner, a photograph is always invisible: it is not it that we see.
photography art past
The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.