Top 1200 Black And White Photography Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white.

Landscapes, heads and naked women are called artistic photography, while photographs of current events are called press photography.

No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already ... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

Photography really is all about lines, and so is clothing. I worked for Oberto Gili for a couple of years after I was at ICP; we worked in fashion, travel, interior design, everything. I was inspired by his styling choices within fashion photography, and I think those experiences helped steer me towards fashion design. I love photography as a medium, so I think I will always take inspiration from it.

Wherever black people are in America, criminalization exists. Wherever there is a white-dominant space, deep racism exists as well - no matter how progressive. If you cut too far into that progressive, if you do something that's too radical, white racism will emerge.

[Photography is ] likewise even French impressionists. So the Sculls bought pop. It was politics, and they moved with it. And I think that could be happening, to some degree, with photography, too. It doesn't cost as much to do it, either.

In the corporate world, sometimes things aren`t exactly black and white when it comes to accounting procedures.

I don't think of people as black or white. It's a question of are they photogenic or not? I don't think anyone says, 'Let's book her. She's black.' I think they say, 'Let's book her. She's good.' We've come that far.

It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white.

You got black people in an all-white country and they don't know nothing about themselves.

Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.

Black people in America have come from slavery to other forms of being oppressed and there are some things that come with that - some pain and anger that come with that and we as black people have to deal with it to heal that. White people have to understand it and have some compassion toward it.

Ignorance is pitiful! If you are ignorant and stupid, you are sick - white, black, green, I don't care.

I always try to make popular films. Even in black-and-white and silent.

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black and white movie.

The photography is not the aim of the work; the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on and what's happening outside.

There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance.

On TV, as in life, white folks are allowed to make mistakes, but usually, black people aren't.

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.

The white worker who has been displaced at General Motors has more in common with the displaced black worker than those larger white CEO's, and those Wall Street people who are determining their fate... whose thievery and greed is determining their fate.

I don't look at things in black and white. There are big gray areas. There's a lot of slippage.

I actually prefer the silent black and white version of the Wizard Of Oz from the 20's.

Until White America can look through the eyes of a Black man, nothing will change. Even we as Black people sometimes don't want to face what's going on within our communities because some of us crossed over into a different tax bracket, but these issues affect the communities that raised us, so it affects us all.

Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries and see the synonyms of the word Black. It's always something degrading and low and sinister. Look at the word White, it's always something pure, high and clean.

You have a white guy as an announcer and sportscaster. Me, I'm black. I do it and I've already done some stuff in the past. We're more expressive than the white guys. You look at the skill players. We're the ones that get into the end zone. We get in the end zone more than they do.

What makes [photography] obscene is its terrible cruelty. Happiness may be fleeting, but it's the reason we go on living. Photography is the joy that precedes pain, the moment of life just before death.

We need to eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.

I sometimes think they should have said 'Black Lives Matter Too,' because that is really what is being said. The outcry is that historically and presently, the feeling is that black lives don't matter as much as white lives because we don't see the same type of things happening to them.

... not all black women have silently acquiesced in sexism and misogyny within the African-American community. Indeed, many writers, activists, and other women have voiced their opposition and paid the price: they have been ostracized and branded as either man- haters or pawns of white feminists, two of the more predictable modes of disciplining and discrediting black feminists.

What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.

I never liked photography. Not for the sake of photography. I like the object. I like the photographs when you hold them in your hand.

Without my photography life would be boring. Photography adds an extra dimension to my life. Somehow it confirms my place in the world

You don't have to be a certain thing to be cool. If you're white, you don't have to act black or whatever. Just be you and know who you are.

Photography brought a lot to painting because it forced artists to think about what painting could do that photography couldn't.

I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.

It would be the easiest thing in the world for the white man to destroy all Black Muslims.

If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.

It's hard to live your life in color, and tell the truth in black and white.

You can't go wrong mixing classic graphics in black and white. It's very Parisienne.

Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It's black and white - dramatic. You have to be strong.

There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.

I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.

Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad.

To me, photography is 90% a retrospective experience. There's the part of pursuing the image, and exposing the film, but once you make the exposure, you're always looking backwards in time. I like that aspect of photography.

My paintings have an ongoing dialogue with photography. There are many painters who would say the same, I'm sure. The difference is that I'm thinking more about the temporal aspect of photography, rather than the visual.

For black folks, the Confederate flag represents the same thing that the Nazi flag represents to the Jews. There is absolutely no difference when we look at it. Now, white folks try to explain it away like, 'Oh, it's OK.' But when you're black, it is not OK. It represents oppression and murder.

Photography is more than a window for me. Photography is more like a space that tries to capture situations.

If we've endured white Jesus for this long, then folks can endure a Black Duke.

When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.

When I worked as a prosecutor in Richmond, Virginia in the 1990s, that city, like so much of America, was experiencing horrific levels of violent crime. But to describe it that way obscures an important truth: for the most part, white people weren't dying; black people were dying. Most white people could drive around the problem.

I was a black kid in an all-white school, so I had to deal with some of that stress and pressure.

God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.

I can't wait to see little white kids dressing up as Black Panther.

There's this idea that photography is a kind of testimony and therefore we're forbidden to tell lies with it. I think that's nonsense. Photography isn't testimony.

The beauty of Sudhir's protagonists is that they are not shown as black and white. There are various layers to the characters.

Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron frame of the hearth, the black cooking pots and pans and stoves. Was it a mourning? Was it protective coloration? Was it mere depression of the senses? No matter what the original color of the paleotechnic milieu might be it was soon reduced by reason of the soot and cinders that accompanied its activities, to its characteristic tones, grey, dirty-brown, black.

I was a mixed black girl existing in a westernized Hawaiian culture where petite Asian women were the ideal, in a white culture where black women were furthest from the standard of beauty, in an American culture where trans women of color were invisible.

I'm a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows.

For black folks, the camera provided a means to document a reality that could, if necessary, be packed, stored, moved from place to place... [Photography] offered a way to contain memories, to overcome loss, to keep history.

News makes things black and white. Documentary filmmaking should do the opposite.