Quotes about photography
photography memorable being-me
All photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable - that is, unforgettable. Susan Sontag
photography people chinese
When Cartier-Bresson goes to China, he shows that there are people in China, and that they are Chinese.
photography thinking people
You can go into all sorts of situations with a camera and people will think they should serve it.
photography art mean
Photography - the supreme form of travel, of tourism - is the principal modern means for enlarging the world. As a branch of art, photography's enterprise of world enlargement tends to specialize in the subjects felt to be challenging, transgressive. A photograph may be telling us: this too exists. And that. And that. (And it is all 'human.') But what are we to do with this knowledge - if indeed it is knowledge, about, say, the self, about abnormality, about ostracized or clandestine worlds?
photography world heroic
Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.
photography art purpose
... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.
photography photograph
A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.
photography art careers
The tradition of portrait painting, to embellish or idealize the subject, remains the aim of everyday and of commercial photography, but it has had a much more limited career in photography considered as art. Generally speaking, the honors have gone to the Cordelias.
photography ongoing pieces
Paintings invariably sum up; photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one photograph, unlike one painting, implies that there will be others.
photography art self
As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art.
photography art twilight
It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos. ... All photographs are memento mori. To take photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt
photography photographer preserves
The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates.
photography cousin often-is
A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
photography book order
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
photography pain photographer
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
photography photograph importance
To photograph is to confer importance.
photography past america
In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
photography photograph
...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
photography mean world
To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like power.
photography art school
I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school. Ray Harryhausen
photography kings real
There’s a strange quality in stop-motion photography, like in King Kong, that adds to the fantasy. If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.
photography temples should
They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum. Tallulah Bankhead
photography people want
A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing. Syd Barrett
photography heart eye
On digital photography: It's fantastic, but it's not a freebie for anything. You still have to have this (he points to his eyes), and this (points to his heart), and feet.
photography black-and-white nostalgia
To some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia.
photography technology avid
As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis. Tipper Gore
photography art records
Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each have and then each forget, when we are allowed to understand that the Creation is whole. Robert Adams
photography silence compelling
Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.
photography space littles
Little wonder that we. . .find the old pictures of openness - pictures usually without any blur, and made by what seems a ritual of patience - wonderful. They restore to us knowledge of a place we seek but lose in the rush of our search. Though to enjoy even the pictures, much less the space itself, requires that we be still longer than is our custom.
photography firsts photographer
Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.
photography art discovery
. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion.
photography running mistake
Nature photography... that acknowledges what is wrong, is admittedly sometimes hard to bear - it has to encompass our mistakes. Yet in the long run, it is important; in order to endure our age of apocalypse, we have to be reconciled not only to avalanche and hurricane, but to ourselves.
photography invention instance
Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse.