188 quotes found
“There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.”
“No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad days, bad clients, snotty subjects, obnoxious handlers, wigged-out art direct...”
“I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it. ”
“I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew moments-kind of like what makes up our lives-those slightly awkward, lovely moments.”
“The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here; the duration of the transmission is insignifi...”
“The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its very existence ... The Photograph then becomes a bizarre (i)me...”
“One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.”
“Photography is a magical kind of art that allows people to preserve time and moments, and to describe the world the way they see it.”
“In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The 'anything whatever' then becomes ...”
“John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, If you want something to look interesting, dont light all of it.”
“A professor I had in college used to tell me that if someone wont listen to what you have to say because youre not wearing a tie, then put on a tie, cause what you have to say is more important tha...”
“For the photograph's immobility is somehow the result of a perverse confusion between two concepts: the Real and the Live: by attesting that the object has been real, the photograph surreptitiously...”
“Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths.”
“It is as if the Photograph always carries its referent with itself, both affected by the same amorous or funereal immobility, at the very heart of the moving world: they are glued together, limb by...”
“Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the public, or rather into the creation of a new...”
“The key is to integrate our art into our life, not the other way around.”
“Youve gotta taste the light, like my friend and fellow shooter Chip Maury says. And when you see light like this, trust me, its like a strawberry sundae with sprinkles.”
“These are the two basic controls at the photographer's command--position and timing--all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them”
“What pricks me is the discovery of this equivalence. In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: She is going to die: I shudder over a catastrophe which has already occurred....”
“It's been said that the role of the artist is to teach us to see and that's true. However, the role of other artists is to teach me how they see. To learn how I see is somethig that cannot be taugh...”
