Top 1200 Photography Quotes & Sayings - Page 14
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.
I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.
For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to catch up to them.
My interest in photography is not to capture an image I see or even have in my mind, but to explore the potential of moments I can only begin to imagine.
With photography, you are lucky if you get people to look at your pictures at some point. There's no formal way to show them.
Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc.
The digital tools allow us to have control over what and how we can alter an image that was unimaginable in the era of analog photography.
The most important part of fashion photography, for me, is not the models; it's not the clothes. It's that you are responsible for defining what a woman today is. That, I think, is my job.
It's a process of getting to know people. That's what photography is to me. It's about paying attention, not screwing up and blowing a great opportunity.
Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set in a journalistic way in front of you.
I consider myself fortunate that photography exists, because otherwise I'd be stuck in the tragedy of ephemeralness that can come with installation art.
Now Ben Folds is my photography older brother. He was kind enough to give me a photo of his for my 40th birthday.
... we are there with our cameras to record reality. Once we start modifying that which exists, we are robbing photography of its most valuable attribute.
My directors of photography light my films, but the colours of the sets, furnishings, clothes, hairstyles - that's me. Everything that's in front of the camera, I bring you.
[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.
I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.
What I like so much about photography is precisely the moment that cannot be anticipated; one must be constantly on the alert, ready to acclaim the unexpected.
Photography seems to fix, but this is an illusion created by our short lives. A photograph is merely a note held for 200 years.
Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot.
The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to community, to reality.
I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.
Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t see.
I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better.
My photography has really always been about what I feel I'm getting out of it. What people on the outside get doesn't concern me.
To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about painting.
The role of photography in crisis and recovery is fascinating, a dance between providing access and destroying the magic and mystique of the monarchy.
My generation came at a time when photography was advancing by leaps and bounds, creating the impulse to experiment and seek new approaches.
The greatest statesmen, philosophers, humanitarians ... have not been able to put an end to war. Why place that demand on photography?
[Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what you leave out as what you put in.
I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.
Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
It just struck me that one of the things about photography that made it such a compelling medium to deal with is that it is perhaps the most contradictory of mediums.
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.
It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
After my mother died, I lived with relatives. Reading was a means of escaping into other worlds, as photography, much later, was to become.
I came to photography with the desire to conquer this machine, the camera, and make it my slave. Instead, I have now a respect for it and all machines as expanders of my awareness.
Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.
The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour.
Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.
I opened up Shutterstock to the whole world. I created a contributor community that anyone could give stock photography a shot.
Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.
It is important to understand what are you trying to capture with a camera. What you want to use this tool for. It helps to begin to search for and concentrate on thematic photography.
Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.
Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.
I've never gotten a release from any person. I'm not a businessman; I'm on the side of common sense. Releases ruin the atmosphere of photography.
For me, the importance of photography is that you can point to something, that you can let other people see things. Ultimately, it is a matter of the specialness of the ordinary.
Some people`s photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that`s fine. But that`s not why I do them. I`m a gun for hire.
Only photography has been able to divide human life
into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence.
I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized that they could lie with photographs.
The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
It was only with the emergence of the Conceptualist approaches of the late 1960s that the opposition between artists using photography and photographers became explicit.
I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.
Photography is always a kind of stealing. A theft from the subject. Artists are assaulters in a lot of ways, and the viewer is complicit in that assault.
I became enamored with photography when I was about 13 or 14 years old. I've been at it ever since. I studied seriously in the '70s.
Photography is the only "language" understood in all parts of the world, and, bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family of man.
Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
Photography was not invented to serve a clearly understood function. There was in fact widespread uncertainty, even among its inventors, as to what it might be good for.
People who are new to photography always pull their subjects directly into the sun, which is the most unflattering light in the world.
I don't think of myself as a photographer. I've engaged questions regarding photography's role in culture... but it is an engagement with a problem rather than a medium.
