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Quote by Jean-Francois Chevrier

“Photography has not invented anything.”

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Jean-François Chevrier, born in 1954, is an unknown scholar. His field of study and expertise are not specified, and his life history and contributions are unclear. His impact and evaluation are not well-documented due to limited information. more

“[Eugene Smith] was always writing these diatribes about truth, and how he wanted to tell the truth, the truth, the truth. It was a real rebel position. It was kind of like a teenager's position: why can't things be like they should be? Why can't I do what I want? I latched on to that philosophy. One day I snapped, hey, you know, I know a story that no one's ever told, never seen, and I've lived it. It's my own story and my friends' story.”

Knows Want Should Writing Kind Real Philosophy Stories Wanted My Own Position One Day My Friends Hey Teenager Telling The Truth Rebel Hey You

Author:Larry Clark

“The work all comes from a psychological need. See the images that I make... It's really a psychological need. I'm just jerked around by it. I'm pulled by it.”

Needs Psychological Psychological Needs

Author:Larry Clark

“At the end of the day, what I show is real life. I tell the truth. And the truth can be shocking.”

Real Ends Shows Real Life The End Of The Day Telling The Truth Shocking

Author:Larry Clark

“I always felt that when I was photographing, I had a psychic need to see this, to photograph this. And I think if somebody else had been doing this work, and if I could have seen these pictures anywhere at all, then there would have been no need to make them.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Has Beens Felt Photograph If I Could Psychics

Author:Larry Clark

“I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result.”

Results Painting Photograph Superiors

Author:Alvin Langdon Coburn

“Artists are interested in pictures as sources of ideas for their work. Where the pictures come from and how they are made is of little concern to them.”

Littles Made Ideas Artist Source Concern

Author:Van Deren Coke

“As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of art, not simply the history of photography, who have shaped important directions for the future.”

Knows Has Beens Art Important Seems Possibility Photography Photographer Exhausted Straightforward History Of Photography

Author:Van Deren Coke

“What a photograph shows us is how a particular thing could be seen, or could be made to look - at a specific moment, in a specific context, by a specific photographer employing specific tools.”

Looks Made Moments Shows Particular Tools Photographer Photograph Employing

Book:Depth of field: essays on photography, mass media, and lens culture

Source: Depth of field: essays on photography, mass media, and lens culture

Quote by Jean-Francois Chevrier

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