188 quotes found
“My love of photography is melded with the ability to capture what I want to remember in the moment I want to never forget.”
“Its the difference between your wifes passport photograph and the portraits you took when you gotengaged. Both may have been created with similar technology, but what stands in that great gulf betw...”
“Later, Jenny would say she seldom knew what she would take a picture of when she picked up a camera, that she only knew once she peered through the viewfinder, as if the photograph had finally foun...”
“Among the things she said: "Women seem to possess all the natural gifts essential to a good portraitist ... such as personality, patience and intuition. The sitter ought to be the predominating fac...”
“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured foreverit remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”
“How can we hold onto those fleeting moments in our lives? Hold onto the moments that otherwise evaporate into the forgotten past? Or moments that become faded and morphed into our own version of re...”
“We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we'd like to be.--PERFORMANCE”
“For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere; perhaps in this image which produces Death while trying to preserve life. Contemp...”
“Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when youre engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting...wonderful!”
“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.”
“If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.”
“I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'”
“Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.”
“My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.”
“I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.”
“The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.”
“The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.”
“I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.”
“I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography it's pretty much trivialized. ”
“There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.”
