Top 1200 Documentary Photography Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
I love photography and art-directing is something that I really would enjoy to do.
Photography opens your eyes a little wider to the world around you.
I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.
We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know.
I'm really interested in photography, like every other human being.
If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.
Photography turns people into things and their image into a mass consumer product.
Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it.
Anybody that looks at my photography, it blows my mind because it's my last hobby.
In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world.
Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school.
The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want it to look natural because then I would be making a documentary film.
A film is not a documentary. And what's wonderful about film is that it's a real provocation for people. I never, ever see film as being an absolute version of the truth.
Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.
What the eye sees is a synthesis of who you are and all you have learned. This is what I would call the language of photography.
In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.
We make movies to endorse our own personal feelings. I am not, in fact, a documentary filmmaker. I've got my personal beliefs, and I'm ready to put them out on the table.
For me, photography must be visual, rather than intellectual and ideological.
Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.
Of course, the main reason is the change of law in the way Germany has brought Nazi war criminals to trial. The previous rules was that you'd have to have tangible evidence, and documentary evidence was not sufficient.
The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.
The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.
To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.
There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste
For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things.
Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation
I was really nervous working with actors, since I come from a photography background.
For me, as a documentary filmmaker, I'm interested in telling stories of real people whose experiences tell us something about ourselves or our history, or who we are and our potential.
Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.
Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality.
I'm so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.
Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.
Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood.
Making the documentary was an extraordinary experience and it really hit home to me the quasi-religious nature of this anthropogenic global warming cause. These people really have found religion.
Photography is a weapon against what's wrong out there. It's bearing witness to the truth.
Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.
The insanely gorgeous competition documentary on surfing obsession, Step Into Liquid — directed by Dana Brown and photographed by John-Paul Beeghly in hypnotic gradations of aquamarine — will send you into a dream state.
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.
People have said to me, 'Oh, you are much nicer making documentaries than you were in politics.' So I should be. If you are making a documentary, you are having fun. You are not under any pressure, normally.
I did documentary film for a long time, and I spent a lot of time behind the camera, fervently wishing that the reality I was filming would conform to my narrative propriety. But you can't control it.
In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.
Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point?
Photography [can] be seen as a system of representation that you bring to bear on other systems.
Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
Photography, for me, is a lot like web surfing in real life.
As for documentary, it was a natural progression from my earlier career in journalism. The two media are connected, but of course making films is much more complicated, because you have image, sound and music to work with, not simply words.
I used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve.
I'm a documentary image maker, still and moving, because keeping the real world on the agenda is really important at a time when we're increasingly disconnected from parts of the world on whom we depend.
Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That's the great thing about photography.
I love football, but I'm also very passionate about photography and film.
Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.
I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but... a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very often I'm doing one thing when I'm thought to be doing another.
Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery! The other 10% is inspiration!!
Photography has become an outstanding and indispensable means of propaganda in the revolutionary struggle.
You can start a documentary with just a camera, as opposed to a fiction film where you need actors, a crew, a script, a lot more start-up resources. It may be self-perpetuating.
Any familiarity with photographic history shows that manipulation is integral to photography.
The photographic frame is no longer used as a documentary window into undisturbed private lives, but as a stage on which the subjects consciously direct themselves to bring forward hidden information that is not normally displayed on the surface.
