Top 1200 Documentary Photography Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
Photography has always been a major part of my vision: my excuse for meddling with what the world looks like.
The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality.
[The] arresting of time is photography's unique capacity, and the decision of when to click the shutter is the photographer's chief responsibility.
Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.
I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.
I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours.
There's this way that photography is always about going out searching. I'm not the kind of a photographer who can photograph my home.
Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.
The very idea of photography is as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in the 19th century, "it's a mirror with a memory."
I believe that the (distorting) mirror which is photography holds an intrinsic, even elemental, relation to writing.
I'm a photographer and retoucher from Sweden. I use photography as a way of collecting material to realize the ideas in my mind.
I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
I'm really very concerned with helping to create an attitude of freedom and daring toward the craft of photography.
Photography is full of symbolism, it's a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single image.
This is the way photography can be cruel... in the sense that it describes everything, even the things we are not necessarily aware we're revealing.
...photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum.
In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.
The act of photography is that of phenomenological doubt to the extent that it attempts to approach phenomena from any number of viewpoints.
Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new.
With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new technologies mean we can make complicated, beautifully crafted and cinematic films about real-life stories.
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power.
I became interested in photography when I was sharing a studio with Walker Evans, and found my own sketching was inadequate.
My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown.
With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.
I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me.
I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.
I would love to make a documentary on my father, Mahesh Bhatt. What is interesting about Bhatt sahab is that he became more interesting personality after he left work.
I consider myself very lucky. I'm known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography.
The nature of photography has always resisted that temptation of interpretation. I look, and what I see looks back at me.
There are 65 to 70 photography galleries in New York alone. In the U.K., there are no more than five, and they're all in London.
I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.
I'm not interested into victim photography. Photographing people suffering and putting it on a museum wall is too weird.
Well it has been very exciting and very changing as well. Celebrating the 40th year and having the album out and the Channel 4 documentary and I resigned from Blind Date.
My photography is often a sociological look at American culture and it's been very well published in the UK.
Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.
My focus is anything that allows me to express myself. Rap, dance, photography. Those are my forms of expression.
Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.
I don't want to be on a soapbox, but I feel like a lot of documentary filmmakers are part of the ancient tradition of writing down notes, of saying, 'Hey people, hey people!'
I love 'Robot Chicken,' 'The Boondocks' and 'America's Funniest Home Videos.' Then there's this show called 'The First 48.' It's a documentary about killings where they try and find murderers. They interrogate people and they tell on each other - it's hilarious.
Stylistically, in improv, I don't think you can have as many camera tricks; I think you're kind of shooting more like a documentary: you don't know where it's going, so you have to hang back a little more.
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
I try to use photography to move people to action to save the wildlife in our beloved ocean.
Photography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand.
Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do so. My conscience is clear.
In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.
I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.
Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.
Photography's central role is to be the absolute medium of the day. It is fantastic that there is no longer any technical intimidation.
The way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share.
There are only two hard things in photography; which way to point the camera and when to release the shutter.
Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.
Painting, music, photography, and visual art have been creative forms of expression for me for decades.
Photography itself is most frequently nothing but the reproduction of the image that a group produces of its own integration.
I am deeply honored to be making 'Life Itself,' a documentary on the life of Roger Ebert, and to have had the full cooperation and enthusiasm of Roger and his wife, Chaz.
If you view your life as a piece of fabric or a tapestry, the photography is the stitching. It keeps everything together.
James Franco, acting, teaching, directing, writing, producing, photography, soundtracks, editing - is there anything you can do?
