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“I consider myself fortunate that photography exists, because otherwise I'd be stuck in the tragedy of ephemeralness that can come with installation art.”

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Sandy Skoglund

Sandy Skoglund, born on September 11, 1946, is an American photographer known for her distinctive style and profound thematic exploration. Her work, characterized by unique scene settings and strong visual impact, often blends elements of reality and fiction. Skoglund's contributions have had a significant impact on the art world, and her photographic techniques and deep thematic discussions have made her a leader in the field of contemporary photography. more

“If you could see a photograph of what it took to make an advertising photograph - things you don't think about, like the photo assistant carefully arranging the meatballs - the degree of unnaturalness would be astonishing. Yet it produces an image that looks natural, and is orchestrated to provoke basic emotional responses.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Would Be Natural Produce Emotional Degrees Response Photograph Advertising Provoking Astonishing Assistants Arranging Emotional Response Meatballs

Author:Sandy Skoglund

“My work involves the physical manifestation of emotional reality. Thus, the invisible becomes visible; the normal, abnormal; and the familiar, unfamiliar. Ordinary life is an endless source of fascination to me in its ritualistic objects and behavior.”

Reality Life Is Objects Emotional Source Behavior Normal Ordinary Endless Invisible Familiar Manifestation Visible Fascination Unfamiliar Abnormal Ordinary Life

Author:Sandy Skoglund

“I think I'm really fortunate to be an installation artist who is heavily invested in photography: I don't have the emotional problems with the loss of work that some installation artists have. The photographs wouldn't exist without the installation... but at the same time, I think I'd kill myself if I only did installations. There's something deeply tragic about doing work that you know is temporal.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Problem Artist Loss Emotional Photography Photograph Fortunate Tragic Installation Emotional Problems

Author:Sandy Skoglund

“To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes to become the photograph.”

Has Beens Art Subjects Photography Transformation Depth Photograph Available Spectators

Author:Michael Snow

“When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater.”

Greater Range Intensity Lenses Aperture

Book:Visual art, 1951-1993: exploring plane and contour : the drawing, painting, collage, foldage, photo-work, sculpture and film of Michael Snow from 1951 to 1967

Source: Visual art, 1951-1993: exploring plane and contour : the drawing, painting, collage, foldage, photo-work, sculpture and film of Michael Snow from 1951 to 1967

“I think it's all absolute nonsense how people talk about photography as being an art. It's a very menial career that you do if you draw badly. Now they teach it at the Royal College of Art and get grand about it. It's the only course there that I don't understand.”

People Ifs Thinking Art Courses Careers Teach College Photography Draws Absolutes Nonsense Royal

Author:Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

“If there is a good thing about photography, it is that it can be easily enjoyed.”

Ifs Photography Good Things Enjoyed

Author:Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

“I'm very much against photographs being framed and treated with reverence and signed and sold as works of art. They aren't. They should be seen in a magazine or a book and then be used to wrap up the fish and chucked away.”

Should Art Book Used Photograph Fishes Treated Magazines Works Of Art Reverence Wraps Framed

Author:Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

“I think it is quite wrong to photograph, for example, Garbo, if she doesn't want to be photographed. Now I would have loved to photograph her, but she obviously didn't want to be photographed so I didn't follow it up. Then somebody will photograph her walking down the street because she has to walk down the street, and I mind that sort of intrusion. I think this is horrible.”

Ifs Thinking Want Mind Walks Streets Example Walking Photograph Horrible Intrusion Garbo

Author:Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon