Top 1200 Photography Quotes & Sayings - Page 17
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
I come from a visual background. I used to work in the camera department at Warner Bros. when I was a teenager. I grew up dusting lenses and learning about photography.
Photography cannot change the world, but it can show the world, especially when it changes.
Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.
I think of myself as a reportage photographer. I like the word. It implies a personal account of an observed event with connotations of subjectivity but honesty. It is eye-witness photography.
Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.
I am someone who takes pleasure in exploring the full scale of the medium photography. I am a photographer.
Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a moment in time, leaving an indelible image.
At the end of the day, photography is ninety-nine percent business, connections, and politics and one percent creativity.
There are movies that change the whole way in which films are made, like Klute, where Gordon Willis’s photography on the film is so textured, and, they said, too dark.
I think that photography has allowed me to have a voice. I used to stutter, and once I overcame that struggle, it felt good to tell people they were beautiful and special.
I felt like I was in the best photography school in the world - I had Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn teach me.
Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.
I use zero photography. I have a photographic memory and a complete knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and an interest in grasping the moment of what is happening, not just the outside, but the inside out.
There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy, it will be more difficult.
Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment...and therefore for the fostering of a healthy human race and even very likely for its survival.
Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere.
Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.
Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography.
I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe.
Rather than a profession, photography has always been a passion for me, a passion closer to an obsession.
Many people misunderstand me - I'm quite happy to be called a photographer. All of a sudden, the art world has caught up with photography, and they are trying to hijack us.
I would strongly encourage anybody embarking on photography as a career to embrace and enjoy the whole process. Being a photographer can be a wonderful way to experience the world.
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.
The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.
In the beginning of my photography I controlled everything: rearranging the room, lighting it, and telling people what to do and where to put their hands. By the last project, I was basically totally at the mercy of serendipity.
Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is inevitably about photography, the container and vehicle of all its meanings.
When you think about it, media's the intersection of content and technology - it's all about storytelling, like photography and the camera.
Fashion photography should say something about the stability of a certain time you live in or what kind of women you like. The most interesting thing is not what they're wearing but who they are.
You don't understand, photography is not about getting the right picture, it's about documenting your everyday life.
Photography is used to give evidence, and the evidence is always deceiving.
My passion is to open people's eyes to the sea using the power of photography as a universal language to convince the unconvinced among us that the oceans are fragile and finite.
Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.
I love to play the guitar. I also love photography and fashion.
I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.
If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally.
Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable.
I prefer to think of photography as a never ending journey with infinite possibilities. I love to return to places to re photograph. Nothing is ever the same. The options are endless.
Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for significance that is latent within them.
Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.
The ultimate role of photography as a contemporary language of visual communication consists of its capacity to slow down our fast and chaotic way of reading images.
I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, This is real, too.
It's neither our culture nor our race which
interconnects us. It's Street Photography.
The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.
If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.
I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.
The thing that was most interesting to me was getting my first prints back from the printer and realizing photography doesn't end with the click of a button, it starts there. Printing is so exciting.
The thing with computer-generated imagery is that it's an incredibly powerful tool for making better visual effects. But I believe in an absolute difference between animation and photography.
Photography is a strange phenomenon... You trust your eye and cannot help but bare your soul.
As the oldest I was a daddys girl and loved him with all my heart. My daddy had holes in his shoes so that he could pay for my photography classes, you know what I mean.
Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification.
We have - through a hundred years of photography and two decades of film - been enormously enriched... We may say we see the world with entirely different eyes.
Photography is all about secrets... The secrets we all have and will never tell.
I had become obsessed with the control-freak aspect of photography and with the rising importance of the image in our social media age it ended up working.
The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
I love being on film sets even if I'm not acting in the film, and I'm fascinated by the work of the director of photography.
We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach to show aspects of reality.
When photography was invented, it was thought to be an equivalent to truth. It was truth with a capital T.
I was a make believe ethnographer: treating New Yorkers like an explorer would treat Zulus - searching for the rawest snapshot, the zero degree of photography.
