Top 1200 Documentary Photography Quotes & Sayings - Page 19
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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
Photography has always been a simple medium, compared to painting in oil or chipping at marble.
I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
Photography is one of the most authentic and integral modes of expression possible in this world in which we live.
I like the idea of infinite human potential, and a lot of my photography and filmmaking has been focused on that.
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
There are some elements of digital photography that I don't really like, such as the fact that you see the results immediately.
If I wanted an open space, I could do a documentary about fishes. Then I would have an open space to play my music. That's not how I visualize the work I'm doing.
My staged work looks so real that people actually take it for documentary. But, in fact, that is my intention, to disguise the manufacturedness of it. Half of my work, or probably more than that, is staged.
Whenever I'm making a feature film, I wish I were filming a documentary, because making feature films is so stressful. It happens every time.
Now people ask whether photography is art, but I think the question is of absolutely no interest.
Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary.
I'm going to put every aspect of myself out into the world and try to convey it through photography.
And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.
I love photography. And I just eat it up. I feel like I'm an encyclopedia, you know, inside.
A picture that is ghostly and silent can be more eloquent and less clichéd than a noisier photo-journalistic approach and I have attempted to make pictures that whilst they are not documentary in the traditional sense, they are still documents, like forensic traces.
There's nothing attractive about doing a documentary. Nothing. It's hard, hard work, and I find having all the attention of the day on me a very unattractive proposition.
Photography is motionless and frozen, it has the cryogenic power to preserve objects through time without decay.
When I got to NYU, I immediately inquired about doing a double major in acting and photography.
Photography... unites the obvious and the unconscious at the level of the limimal - the border between what we see and what we suspect.
What I've always liked about photography is that it's such a direct way of showing what's on my mind. I see something. I show it to you.
I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
With light field technology, there is a huge opportunity for creativity in photography that hasn't been available in the past.
I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.
I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.
I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary.
I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality.
The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing.
This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.
You are either born to be a photographer or not. The art of photography is not something you can learn in the classroom or by watching someone do it.
My photography is often a sociological look at American culture, and it's been very well published in the U.K.
Michael Moore announced that his next documentary film will attack the health care industry in America. He's not out to get the pharmaceutical companies. He's just looking for something to relieve the redness in the center of the country.
Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.
It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.
Photography... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919)
It's supposed to be entertainment. It's not supposed to be a documentary.
I'm a documentary filmmaker, so often I'm in the position of talking to people who are sharing stories that are critically important to share, but often difficult to share at the same time.
I watched a documentary about the immigrant crisis around the world. And it does make me blush at all the times I've stood up on the stage and given your speech about the healing power of fiction.
There's a documentary film-maker called Werner Herzog, who's a German film-maker. I really dig his stuff, I'd love to chat with him.
The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected.
I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial.
I like there to be a joke in practically every photo I take. Nobody has the right to make photography boring.
I've always thought photography is not so much of an art form but a way of communicating and passing on information.
Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.
A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.
There's only one rule in photography - never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup.
I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.
I had a very short time on that film [The Possibilities Are Endless] and it was quite strange because the process was kind of like a documentary, which was different for me. The way everything was filmed was very casual.
Becoming a professional artist takes talent and perseverance, even more so when the field is photography.
It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.
I, for one, personally like rom-coms, silly rom-coms, but at the same time, I also want to watch a documentary or an award-winning drama.
I collect primarily ceramics but also black-and-white photography and some bits of contemporary.
Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.
Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.
As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.
There are a lot of things about Russian culture, art, music, photography and literature that I'm love with.
I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.
That's one of the wonderful things about the whole process of photography - eye contact can be very revealing.
You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry.
