Quotes about photo
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. Edward Steichen
photography men records
Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
photography art pieces
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
photography men sky
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
photography simple artist
Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can readily be mastered by anyonwith a few simple instructions. It is difficult because, while while the artist working in any other medium begins with a blank surface and gradually brings his conception into being, the photographer is the only imagemaker who begins with the picture completed. His emotions, his knowledge, and his native talent are brought into focus and fixed beyond recall the moment the shutter of his camera has closed.
photography art men
When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself.
photography glasses discovery
I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of presentation seen on ground glass, the finished print previsioned completely in every detail of texture, movement, proportion, before exposure - the shutter's release automatically and finally fixes my conception, allowing no after manipulation - the ultimate end, the print, is but a duplication of all that I saw and felt through my camera. Edward Weston
photography art believe
The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important graphic medium of our day. It does not have to be, indeed cannot be - compared to painting - it has different means and aims.
photography thinking water
People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting.
photography gone matter
I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without.
photography lying artist
"Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more likely to approach nature in a spirit of inquiry, of communion, instead of with the saucy swagger of self-dubbed "artists"."
photography vision patterns
When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial cliches.
photography ideas perfect
Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.
photography program appeals
My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.
photography today spirit
Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today.
photography school cities
It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of "social significance" when it has a far more important bearing on the human race of a given locale than excrescences called cities.
photography eye ideas
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.
photography steel substance
The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.
photography lenses want
I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.
photography mean wells
To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.
photography quality exposure
I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure.
photography understanding important
The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding of his subject and mastery of his process.
photography strong records
There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me.
photography art opportunity
The... arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, finding things ready-made for a machine to record, and of course the mechanics of the medium. ...I say that chance enters into all branches of art: a chance word or phrase starts a new trend of thought in a writer, a chance sound may bring a new melody to a musician, a chance combination of lines, new composition to a painter. ...Chance - which in reality is not chance - but being ready, attuned to one's surroundings - and grasp my opportunity....
photography film process
Since the recording process is instantaneous, and the nature of the image such that it cannot survive corrective handwork, it is obvious that the finished print must be created in full before the film is exposed.
photography reason obvious
I see no reason for recording the obvious.
photography grace tonight
...the pepper is beginning to show signs of strain, and tonight should grace a salad. It has been suggested that I am a cannibal to eat my models.
photography rocks looks
This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.
photography men people
Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.
photography art creativity
The prejudice many photographers have against colour photography comes from not thinking of colour as form. You can say things with colour that can't be said in black and white... Those who say that colour will eventually replace black and white are talking nonsense. The two do not compete with each other. They are different means to different ends.
photography moving knowing
Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just right (or that shadow, or the light).' As a matter of fact, I almost never wait, that is, unless I can see that the thing will be right in a few minutes. But if I must wait an hour for the shadow to move, or the light to change, or the cow to graze in the other direction, then I put up my camera and go on, knowing that I am likely to find three subjects just as good in the same hour.
photography law littles
Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.
photography matter photographer
Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.