Top 1200 Documentary Photography Quotes & Sayings - Page 17
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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
I studied photography in high school, and straight away, I knew it was something I was interested in.
Photography has always been a struggle for me to take seriously as an art form.
I love to paint, do ceramics, photography. I got a lot of side things that I like to do.
To teach consequential photography, don't bother with Photoshop or f-stops. Create a craving for images.
Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.
To some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia.
It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop
I was obsessed from the moment I took my first photograph. I wanted to make photography my career.
I like to think that the music is a mixture of personal experiences mixed with photography and movies.
Photography ruins marriages, and I've been married three times - so there's a downside to it as well.
The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.
Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.
Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.
There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.
I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities.
We don't have enough words for photography. Can you imagine writers having only one word for writing?
Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism... and as things turned out, it was.
I've been into photography for years and I do it as often as possible. I'm just trying to develop myself.
Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.
When I started, art photography, like that of Andreas Gursky, and Thomas Struth, didn't exist.
From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840.
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life.
I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.
Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture.
A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
I was born in Hoboken. I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for Truth my obsession.
What inspires me still: travel, art, photography, my kids, the places I haven't been to yet.
Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.
Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century.
Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.
In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.
I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.
As much as I love music, in my mind, photography is what makes me the happiest - that's for sure.
Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.
I just wanted to be creative, so I did photography, and that led me ultimately to music.
What Bell is to the telephone—or, more aptly, what Eastman is to photography—Haloid could be to xerography.
Wildlife photography takes a long time because you have to wait for things to happen.
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
Straight photography, following the medium, is intoxicating - trying to wrestle it into the form of a poem.
Photography can be a powerful instrument for change, and photojournalists can tell stories that make a difference.
No individual photo explains anything. That’s what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.
Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today.
Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.
I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.
For me it is clear that photography prizes should be for those being photographed and not for the photographers.
I've always considered myself a poet in everything that I do, whether it's photography or movie-making.
Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.
The digital image annihilates photography while solidifying, glorifying and immortalizing the photographic.
It's amazing how photography can capture just a split second of something exquisite.
The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
Photography is a big part of my life: taking photographs, being around photographers.
I always said it kept me alive - photography - because it did. It was my catharsis.
If you watch a stretch of TV for a few hours, there is a good chance you'll hear me on some commercial or in some documentary or on a cartoon as some voice of a character.
Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
I mean, there are peripheral things I do, I do photography, I write plays, I have books published, but that's neither here not there.
Photography and movies are a much bigger influence on me than music is itself.