Quotes about photograph
photography attitude taken
The invention of photography provided a radically new picture-making process - a process based not on synthesis but on selection. The difference was a basic one. Paintings were made - constructed from a storehouse of traditional schemes and skills and attitudes - but photographs, as the man on the street put, were taken. John Szarkowski
photography best-picture
The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning.
photography writing editing
Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's cone of vision, while standing in the right place at the right time. Like chess, or writing, it is a matter of choosing from among given possibilities, but in the case of photography the number of possibilities is not finite but infinite.
photography sometimes existence
They were ... pure and unadulterated photographs, and sometimes they hinted at the existence of visual truths that had escaped all other systems of detection.
photography lying simplicity
The simplicity of photography lies in the fact that it is very easy to make a picture. The staggering complexity of it lies in the fact that a thousand other pictures of the same subject would have been equally easy.
photography world impossible
Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately informative, and pointless. But if one insists in a photograph that is both complex and vigorous it is almost impossible
photography photographer contests
Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ...
photographer photograph wells
A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.
photography essence crafts
To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.
photography luck foresight
Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck. John Stuart Mill
photography jobs thinking
Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance. Nancy Pelosi
photography alienation products
Photography is the product of complete alienation. Marcel Proust
photography reality dignity
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
photography artist invention
Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it. Kenneth Clark
photography book mean
I mean, there are peripheral things I do, I do photography, I write plays, I have books published, but that's neither here not there. Lou Reed
photography intimate-moments learning-something-new
I found that the camera was a comforting companion. It opened up new worlds, and gave me access to people's most intimate moments. I discovered the privilege of seeing life in all its complexity, the thrill of learning something new every day. When I was behind a camera, it was the only place in the world I wanted to be. Lynsey Addario
photography thinking people
People think photography is about photographing. To me, it’s about relationships.
photograph draws dies
When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies John Fowles
photography dog choices
A reader, encountering a sentence about a barking dog, would have to dwell on why that choice was made at that moment. Everything in a novel is explicitly chosen, whereas some of what a film captures feels incidental, according to the vagaries of photography and sound recording. Jonathan Lethem
photography moving thinking
I don't know whether we think in moving images or whether we think in still images. I have a suspicion that on our hard drive, our series within our brains, [exist] still photographs of very important moments in our lives. ... That we think in terms of still images and that what the photography is doing is making direct contact with the human hard drive and recording for all time a sense of what happened. Jon Snow
photography real light
I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself... Edward Steichen
photography art sake
Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.
photography people patterns
The precision of hisskill places his work beyond the tentative and the experimental stage. He is continually searching and exploring both himself and his surroundings. and in this exploration of the realm of places, people and things, contrasts and relationships, Callahan is no respecter of conventional technical formula or code. His delicate sense of pattern is an integral part of his photography and not a thing by itself.
photography art self
To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the art of photography besides imitations of the best photographers on the market today, that is basic training, the understanding of self.
photography spring mean
Some day there may be... machinery that needs but to be wound up and sent roaming o'er hill and dale, through fields and meadows, by babbling brooks and shady woods - in short, a machine that will discriminately select its subject and, by means of a skillful arrangement of springs and screws, compose its motif, expose the plate, develop, print, and even mount and frame the result of its excursion, so that there will be nothing for us to do but to send it to the Royal Photographic Society's exhibition and gratefully to receive the 'Royal Medal'.
photography art ideas
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.
photography perfect daguerreotypes
A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.
photography feelings records
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.
photography mistake artist
It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and important work. Better positive and important with mistakes and failures than perfect mediocrity.
photography cameras photographer
No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.
photography photograph thousand
A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.
photography men earth
The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
photography men records
Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.