Quotes about photograph
photography believe inspiration
I believe that the source of your inspiration is very important. I sometimes see this problem with photographers, even very good ones, who have drawn too much inspiration from photography and who, over time, have a problem forming their own identity. Peter Lindbergh
photography opportunity giving
Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.
photography literature hours
I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours. Teju Cole
photography difficulty explicit
One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.
photography laughing people
When people talk to me about picture hunters, I very quietly laugh. I'm not a hunter of pictures, I'm a fisher of pictures. Robert Doisneau
photography lying made
Photography is very subjective. Photography is not a document on which a report can be made. It is a subjective document. Photography is a false witness, a lie.
photography two add
A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there-even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.
photography writing answers
If you take photos, don't speak, don't write, don't analyze yourself, and don't answer any questions.
photograph
I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be,
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.
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.
photography language advantage
One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language. Lisa Kristine
photography art substance
Unlike the older, more humanly shaped arts, which begin with a seed and accumulate their form organically, photography clips its substance out of an actual continuum. John Updike
photography art tools
Photography is the first art wherein the tool does most of the work.
photography might facts
Photography was not invented to serve a clearly understood function. There was in fact widespread uncertainty, even among its inventors, as to what it might be good for. John Szarkowski
photography facts purpose
Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.
photography cat thinking
What's happening is that people are making a billion photographs a year of their cats, frequently with the cats wearing costumes. Do you think I should be doing shows of cat photography?
photography shapes lines
The central act of photography, the act of choosing and eliminating, forces a concentration on the picture edge - the line that separates in from out - and on the shapes that are created by it.
photography years done
Most of Tina Modotti's work that is known to the photography world was done in Mexico in the years 1923 through 1926, when she lived and worked with Edward Weston.
photography eye cones
Photography is choosing where to point your eye-cone.
photography ideas interesting
A camera has interesting ideas of its own.
photography may vehicle
Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is inevitably about photography, the container and vehicle of all its meanings.
photography might vantage-point
Pure photography is a system of picture-making that describes more or less faithfully what might be seen through a rectangular frame from a particular vantage point at a given moment.
photography philosophical thinking
In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter that he thinks will make the pictures.
photography lying discovery
Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.
photography illumination media
One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the early 'fifties' what might have been the golden age of this speciality - photographers worked largely as the possessors of special and arcane skills, like the ancient priests who practiced and monopolized the skills of pictography or carving or manuscript illumination. In those halcyon days the photographer enjoyed a privileged status.
photography teacher luck
Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher.