Top 1200 Photography Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
I believe that photography loves banal objects, and I love the life of objects.
One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.
Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.
All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.
Photographing is an emotional thing, a graceful thing. Photography allows me to wander with a purpose.
Photography used to be not for the faint of heart. Its rigors would weed out the not-so-committed pretty quickly. You had to crank the f-stop ring yourself!
Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it.
What I believe is really good in the so-called documentary approach to photography is the addition of lyricism.[this quality] is usually produced unconsciously and even unintentionally and accidentally by the cameraman.
In my view, photography and painting really share one history. The influences that work on one, work on the other.
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.
I always had the feeling, even when I started, that my photography was meant to be archival in nature. Sort of like wine, I guess - they get better with age.
You know, you get into the business of commercial photography, and that's all you do is photograph what you know. That's what you're hired for.
I think photography is a universal language as far as storytelling goes, and I think that's what it's most successful at.
I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'
Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography.
My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
The Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it.
If you scratch through the deceitful artifice of contemporary photography, you'll find the real artifice underneath.
My introduction to photography and a lot of how I developed aesthetically was through '50s and early-'60s fashion magazines like Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.
In the final analysis, photography... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun.
Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.
It was the era of photography. This may have influenced us, and played a part in our reaction against anything resembling a snapshot of life. (On the year 1905)
George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that.
Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.
When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
French photography was basically poetic, and mine was vulgar and brash and violent, except that there's never any violence in the photographs: it's only in the photographic style.
I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it.
I love photography. I like to write. I like coaching. I've made jewelry. I'm very creative.
I had no idea how I wanted to get into photography, but I just knew I wanted to do it.
Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something.
The world of your photography is limitless-just like your backyard.
For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about.
I didnt know photography would take me to the places that it has taken me
Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves.
Photography is the easiest thing to make, and one of the hardest things to make well.
People think photography is about photographing. To me, it’s about relationships.
I find fashion magazines so incredibly boring . . . There still is no new photography and no new concerns.
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.
Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know.
I played in bands very very young. I painted; I did photography, all kinds of things.
I started thinking of digital imaging, not photography, in 1994 as it seemed the most appropriate way to deal with ideas of biotechnology and advertising. My practice is conceptual.
I draw cinematic and photography and art references from everywhere. That's part of my job. So yes, you watch films, you see artists for palettes, photographers for mood.
The ambition of instantaneous photography... was that of preserving the spontaneity of action and avoiding any indication that the presence of the picture taker had a modifying influence on what was going on.
The gear you can't afford is not the barrier keeping you from success. Gear has very little to do with photography.
My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture
This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.
I do photography and I studied film at school. So I've always really enjoyed that and I've got an eye for camera angles I guess. I've never taken that into filming wildlife.
The point of fashion is that you take the picture you want. And fashion is the only photography that allows fantasy, and I'm a fantasist.
Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.
I was drawn to photography as an extension of film, and the beauty of film is that it's a sensuous, fetishistic medium.
Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me.
I would say, if I had any hobbies, I love photography. I love taking photographs.
Having worked with so many of the geniuses, I'd learned so much. It's the best sort of photography school, to work with people like Penn or Avedon or Meisel.
No language on earth speaks as comprehensively as photography, always providing that we follow the chemical and optic and physical path to demonstrable truth, and understand physiognomy.
Ultimately photography is about who you are. It's the truth in relation to yourself. And seeking truth becomes a habit.
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
Photography's about the surface, what's happening at the top of the sea. Literature's about all the stuff below.
