Quotes about photograph
photography sunset light
"It is light that reveals, light that obscures, light that communicates. It is light I "listen" to. The light late in the day has a distinct quality, as it fades toward the darkness of evening. After sunset there is a gentle leaving of the light, the air begins to still, and a quiet descends. I see magic in the quiet light of dusk. I feel quiet, yet intense energy in the natural elements of our habitat. A sense of magic prevails. A sense of mystery. It is a time for contemplation, for listening - a time for making photographs. " John Sexton
photography tools photographer
I find the single most valuable tool in my darkroom is my trash can
photography trying months
I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop in Yosemite in 1973 I decided I wanted to try and see if I could pursue this for myself, and I'm still trying.
photography believe men
I tell you (dogmatically, if you like to call it so, knowing it well) a square inch of man's engraving is worth all the photographs that were ever dipped in acid... Believe me, photography can do against line engraving just what Madame Tussaud's wax-work can do against sculpture. That and no more. (1865) John Ruskin
photography art creativity
We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another, and yet another behind the last one, and so on, up to the true image of that absolute, mysterious reality that no one will ever see. Michelangelo Antonioni
photography successful guy
The joy for me of television is the sort of family feeling of being involved with an ensemble - the cast and the crew and the director of photography and the guys in the camera truck - and you're all coming together. There's a great feeling when that is a successful unit, a successful family. Jeffrey Pierce
photography taken portraits
I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know... Francis Bacon
photograph interest
Let's put it this way - I photograph what interests me all the time. I live with the pictures to see what that thing looks like photographed. I'm saying the same thing; I'm not changing it. Garry Winogrand
photography looks world
I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.
photography light photographer
Light makes photography. Embrace light. George Eastman
photography memories light
Photography is thus brought within reach of every human being who desires to preserve a record of what he sees… and enables the fortunate possessor to go back by the light of his own fireside to scenes which would otherwise fade from memory and be lost.
photography memes
Photographier: c'est mettre sur la meme ligne de mire la tete, l'oeil et le coeur. Henri Cartier-Bresson
photography facts common
Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its practitioners is in the instrument.
photography taken force
A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
photography today spontaneity
I suddenly understood that photography can fix eternity in a moment. It is the only photo that influenced me. There is such intensity in this image, such spontaneity, such joie de vivre, such miraculousness, that even today it still bowls me over.
photography mean expression
Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.
photography expression organization
The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression... In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a leitmotif.
photography cameras moments
The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.
photography taken dark
...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room.
photography eye expression
There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.
photography interesting feelings
Emotion or feeling is really the only thing about pictures I find interesting. Beyond that is is just a trick. Christopher Anderson
photography eye artist
The contemporary artist...is not bound to a fully conceived, previsioned end. His mind is kept alert to in-process discovery and a working rapport is established between the artist and his creation. While it may be true, as Nathan Lyons stated, 'The eye and the camera see more than the mind knows,' is it not also conceivable that the mind knows more than the eye and the camera can see? Jerry Uelsmann
photography attitude crafts
I'm really very concerned with helping to create an attitude of freedom and daring toward the craft of photography.
photography humanity body
Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard. Jerzy Kosinski
photograph deceptive
Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph. Franz Kafka
photography forever goes-on
I can tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can't ever find out. You can't find out in one life either. Harry Callahan
photography memories mean
He sought a way to preserve the past. John Hershel was one of the founders of a new form of time travel.... a means to capture light and memories. He actually coined a word for it... photography. When you think about it, photography is a form of time travel. This man is staring at us from across the centuries, a ghost preserved by light. Carl Sagan
photography dare mediums
Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare. Bill Brandt
photography wall dark
I never shot on sets, but if I was traveling somewhere or on location, I would always have my camera, and I'd always be - it's that kind of fly on the wall approach to photography, though. I don't engage the subject. I like to sneak around, skulk about in the dark. Jessica Lange
photography art mean
Suddenly, I saw it in a new way, as a picture that offered me a new view, free of all the conventional criteria I had always associated with art. It had no style, no composition, no judgment. It freed me from personal experience. For the first time, there was nothing to it: it was pure picture. That's why I wanted to have it, to show it - not use it as a means to painting but use painting as a means to photography. Gerhard Richter
photography reality yield
Photography has almost no reality; it is almost a hundred per cent picture. And painting always has reality: you can touch the paint; it has presence; but it always yields a picture - no matter whether good or bad. That's all the theory. It's no good. I once took some small photographs and then smeared them with paint. That partly resolved the problem, and it's really good - better than anything I could ever say on the subject.
photography fashion expression
It was around the age of 18 when I started to feel like I had learned everything I could learn from being a model - modeling is a really incredible form of expression, but I got into modeling because I loved fashion so much and I really loved photography. Jaime King
photography photograph
I absolutely forbade all public photographs of myself. I like photography, I don't have anything against it, but... Jacques Derrida