Quotes about photograph
photography eye why-not
The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it? Edward Weston
photography squirrels long
The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel cage chase from new lens to new paper to new developer to new gadget, never staying with one piece of equipment long enough to learn its full capacities, becoming lost in a maze of technical information that is of little or no use since they don't know what to do with it.
photography cutting giving
If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.
photography car yards
Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.
photography people stuff
Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through. Edward Burtynsky
photography years space
I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for tens of thousands of years. Having that experience was necessary to my perception of how photography can look at the changes humanity has brought about in the landscape. My work does become a kind of lament.
photography memories past
Favorite People, Favorite Places, Favorite Memories of the past ... These are the joys of a lifetime Those are the things that last Henry Van Dyke
photography airplane college
I had done a lot of rock 'n' roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and all of these rock 'n' roll bands. John Dykstra
photography stars war
George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that.
photograph ifs meaningless
If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless. John Berger
photography flirting flow
Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
photographer contradiction natural
A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory. These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
photography memories cameras
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
photography drawing doe
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
photography opposites different
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
photography decision choices
Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
photography cutting political
I want my pictures to cut through political abstractions... and make a connection on a human level. James Nachtwey
photography war opposites
Photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.
photography college years
I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.
photography war destiny
I want to record history through the destiny of individuals who often belong to the least wealthy classes. I do not want to show war in general, nor history with a capital H, but rather the tragedy of a single man, of a family.
photography war horror
Photojournalists know the horrors of war can only be exposed at close range. Kodak Film.
photography jobs people
Many people in this world do jobs that are dangerous and where their life is at risk and they feel that there is some kind of value to their job I guess that's how I feel about what I do. There is a social function to documentary photography that is very important and it requires people to take risks.
photography motivation inspiration
[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.
photography powerful media
But everyone cannot be there, and that is why photographers go there - to show them, to reach out and grab them and make them stop what they are doing and pay attention to what is going on - to create pictures powerful enough to overcome the diluting effects of the mass media and shake people out of their indifference - to protest and by the strength of that protest to make others protest.
photography mean ideas
Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior which has existed throughout history by means of photography? The proportions of that notion seem ridiculously out of balance. Yet, that very idea has motivated me.
photography needs truth-is
When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.
photography war demand
The greatest statesmen, philosophers, humanitarians ... have not been able to put an end to war. Why place that demand on photography?
photography people trying
I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.
photography important lessons
It is very hard to say where you're going until you get there. That kind of thing is based very much on instinct. As a photographer, one of the most important lessons I have learnt is that you have to learn to listen to and trust your own instinct. It has helped to guide me - this far at least.
photography war lying
For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.
photography torn-apart events
I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.
photography painting hybrid
Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography. John Baldessari
photography photograph
There's no such thing as a bad photograph.