Quotes about photo
photography commitment rocks
The thing that keeps you scrambling over the rocks, risking snakes, and swatting at the flies is the view. It is only your enjoyment of and commitment to what you see, not to what you rationally understand, that balances the otherwise absurd investment of labor. Robert Adams
photography community may
Your own photography is never enough. Every photographer who has lasted has depended on other peoples pictures too - photographs that may be public or private, serious or funny, but that carry with them a reminder of community. Robert Adams
photography needs cameras
I just got this new camera. It's very advanced - you don't even need it. Steven Wright
photography paint i-can
Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that. Steven Soderbergh
photography way painting
Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating. Viggo Mortensen
photography people looks
When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice. Robert Frank
photography black-and-white color
Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected. Robert Frank
photography eye black-and-white
The eye should learn to listen before it looks. Robert Frank
photography matter photographer
Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference Robert Frank
photography two humanity
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph. Robert Frank
photography war photograph
After the war, photography came alive, in part because everybody started to use the 35mm camera, and worked on the street instead of in a studio, and that made an enormous difference in not only how photographs looked, but what they were about.
photography invisible visible
Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible. Rene Magritte
photography art visuals
I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts. Thomas F. Wilson
photography art firsts
It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage. Val Kilmer
photography feminist trying
Seeing lesbian photography is just the tip of my radicalized clitoris. I have modeled for, commissioned, published, and fought for these pictures, and answered threats against them. I've seen the feminist movement bring these pictures to life, and I've seen that same movement try to suppress the liberating results. Susie Bright
photography fantasy
Photography threatens fantasy. Taryn Simon
photography truthful said
There is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any less truthful than any other photographs. Taryn Simon
photography mistake bounds
...photography's history is bound to the mistake, to the accident. Taryn Simon
photography clubs claims
The photograph doesn't claim to be a participant, or to know, or to be a club member of whatever it's documenting - photography is more demanding when it doesn't pretend to know. Taryn Simon
photography giving seductive
I'm designing a seductive frame to attract an audience to a subject they would otherwise ignore. And that's what I do in all of my photography - give a stage to things that wouldn't normally receive that stage. Taryn Simon
photography ideas layers
Simulations directly relate to the process of and complications in photography. They also overtly create layers of fantasies, myths and interventions... The simulation confuses the idea of a truth. I've always been interested in this kind of theater and illusion at the foundation of belief. Taryn Simon
photography honesty tired
Documentary photography is becoming more illustrative as people become more familiar with photography’s limitations and vulnerabilities. Reality has always been interpreted through layers of manipulation, abstraction, and intervention. But now, it is very much on the surface. I like this honesty about its dishonesty. Every photograph has many truths and none. Photographs are ambiguous, no matter how seemingly scientific they appear to be. They are always subject to an uncontrollable context. This is a tired statement, but worth repeating. Taryn Simon
photography art attention
The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer. Steven Pinker
photography art mean
I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way. Sydney Pollack
photography art real
The destiny of photography has taken it far beyond the role to which it was originally thought to be limited: to give more accurate reports on reality (including works of art). Photography is the reality; the real object is often experienced as a letdown. Susan Sontag
photography art twilight
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos. Susan Sontag
photography real done
Images anesthetize. An event known through photographs certainly becomes more real than it would have been if one had never seen the photographs ... But after repeated exposure to images it also becomes less real. ... 'concerned' photography has done at least as much to deaden conscience as to arouse it. Susan Sontag
photography photograph ugliness
Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty. Susan Sontag
photography inspire lust
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied. Susan Sontag
photography world photograph
To collect photographs is to collect the world. Susan Sontag
photography men vocation
The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man. Susan Sontag
photography interesting mysterious
It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones. Susan Sontag
photography art mean
To us, the difference between the # photographer as an individual eye and the photographer as an objective recorder seems fundamental, the difference often regarded, mistakenly, as separating photography as art from # photography as document. But both are logical extensions of what photography means: note-taking on, potentially, everything in the world, from every possible angle. Susan Sontag