Top 1200 Documentary Photography Quotes & Sayings - Page 11
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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.
Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.
The exposé, the compassion and outrage, of documentary fueled by the dedication to reform has shaded over into combinations of exoticism, tourism, voyeurism, psychologism and metaphysics, trophy hunting - and careerism.
My father thought photography was done by lowlifes.
Bad weather makes for good photography.
I think you could very much make a 'Vanity Fair' in 2018, and I think it would probably look like a documentary.
Photography is not difficult - as long as you have something to say.
Everybody was apprehensive about a documentary. When we're all dead and gone, we don't want to leave something that is not going to be representing the band in a true and honest way that shows everything that's important.
A career in photography is a journey without a destination.
I know about photography - I'm really good at it.
Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future.
Like my father and grandfather, Philippe and Jacques-Yves Cousteau, I've dedicated my life to exploring and protecting our seas, in large part through documentary film.
To me photography functions as a fossilization of time.
Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night.
Photography's history is bound to the mistake, to the accident.
The persistent problem in photography is how to look at it.
Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.
A lot of the commercials that I was doing were very slice-of-life, emotional, documentary-style, not big and cinematic and ultimately like the kind of movie I wanted to make.
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
Photography was a big part of our family.
I would do a documentary about Jay-Z. Yes, I would.
When you make a documentary film, after many years the only thing you remember is what you put into the film, not what you took out.
I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists.
If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world.
All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.
I love the unexpected and I think that's why documentary is an attractive genre to me because you don't know where it's going to go, so I tend to involve that as much as possible in the production process.
Maybe if I found something I was really passionate about, which is entirely possible, I would make another documentary, but it's not a good career choice for anybody. I don't recommend it.
Light is one of the most important factors in photography.
When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad.
Photography has always been capable of manipulation.
Great photography is always on the edge of failure.
Life is a journey, photography is thy shepherd.
Photography knows how to authenticate its misrepresentations.
Photography is like an open book to the world.
Digital photography makes you a better photographer.
News photography teaches you to think fast.
Photography is one big scrapbook of your life.
I do read many of the photography magazines from the U.K. and abroad.
Photography imitates everything and expresses nothing.
Photography is a very important part of my life.
Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
In documentary, which is the only thing I'm really very familiar with, women are very easily relegated into a producer role.
As far as entertainment, 'The Right Stuff' is a good movie. As far as a documentary of the early space days, which they purported it to be, it is not at all.
Documentary filmmaking has all the challenges and hardships of narrative filmmaking without any of the infrastructure or support. That's both a blessing and a curse.
Don't you think that it is necessary to have a sense of brutality in photography?
The biggest cliche in photography is sunrise and sunset.
Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.
If you are playing someone living, it is a different type of judgment. However much work you do, it is not a documentary. There will be things you can't get right, and ultimately, you have to take a leap because - you weren't there.
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.
The camera is the least important element in photography.
I'm a big believer in practical and location photography.
When it comes to wildlife photography, you need to have luck and patience.
Photography is simply a function of noticing things.
We all identify with the people we see, and in a good documentary, we are not just reading an account of the world, we're seeing and hearing our world.
The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.
I picked up photography in high school.
I'm inviting the spirits into my photography. It's an act of God.
Photography can be a volatile situation. It can be very potent.
