“When I teach a class I often give the assignment: Photograph someone you love. I ask people to do this so they have a subject about whom they have feelings, a subject that is more than a model, or an object, or a shape, or an idea. In this way, they can judge the result not only by its technical success, but also by how well it describes their feelings.” PeopleWayGivingWellsIdeasFeelingsAsksResultsClassTeachSubjectsObjectsJudgingShapesModelsPhotographAssignmentsOne You LoveSomeone You Love Book:Pictures under discussion Source: Pictures under discussion
“There are two kinds of photographs: mine and other people's. I never think of what I might do myself when I look at someone else's pictures... there is no subject in the world I have ever wanted to photograph. It's the picture, not the object, that is important to me.” PeopleThinkingWorldLooksKindTwoImportantMightWantedSubjectsObjectsMinesPhotograph Book:Pictures under discussion Source: Pictures under discussion
“In a painting no one complains that the subject is posed, but everybody complains about what looks posed in a photograph. Except, I've found that if I go very close in to the face, then the posed expression no longer exists. The face becomes a landscape of the lakes of the eyes and the hills of the nose and the valley of the cleft of the chin.” IfsLooksEyeFacesFoundSubjectsPaintingExpressionPhotographComplainingHillsLandscapeNosesLakesValleysChins Author:John Loengard
