Home / Quotes / Quote by Ezra Stoller

Quote by Ezra Stoller

“... photography is just a medium. It's like a typewriter. Photography as an art doesn't interest me an awful lot; as a participant, though I like to look at it.”

Quote by Ezra Stoller

Author

Ezra Stoller was a renowned American photographer known for his unique perspective on modern architecture and industrial design. His work had a profound impact on the field of architectural photography in the mid-20th century. more

You May Also Like

“My photos tend to be confusing. I show a great many vistas.”

Shows Great Men Confusing Vistas

Author:Ezra Stoller

“Photography is space, light, texture, of course, but the really important element is time - that nanosecond when the image organizes itself on the ground glass.”

Important Light Courses Space Elements Photography Glasses Organize Texture

Author:Ezra Stoller

“At the core of my work there is this eternal back-and-forth between being confined to one's own individuality and that longing to be part of the other, the outside world: the impossibility of ever being able to get beneath another person's skin.”

World Persons Able Eternal Skins Longing Individuality Core Impossibility Confined Back And Forth Outside World

Author:Beat Streuli

“...I don't see myself as a documentary photographer. I am more drawn to the image itself, rather than to the description of a scene. And, anyway, every image only halfway represents reality, whereas the other half is rather, more or less, fulfilling our imagination.”

Reality Imagination Half Scene Photographer Description Fulfilling Documentaries Halfway Other Half

Author:Beat Streuli

“My work doesn't speak about individuals (it's not portraiture in the traditional sense), it tries to speak about life in general in cities of the West - which is where I live and what I understand.”

Trying Individual Speak Cities West Traditional Portraiture

Author:Beat Streuli

“I like to be flexible in the way I take pictures. I do not use a tripod, and I move around in the crowd, of which I am myself part.... I try to preserve the dynamics of the street, and my way of using the camera tries to approximate as much as possible the way we see: focusing on details, opening up to wider angles, and composing all these very short, fragmented impressions into a larger mental picture.”

Way Trying Use Moving Streets Cameras Details Crowds Impression Opening My Way Preserves Angle Flexible Composing Dynamics Opening Up Fragmented Tripods

Author:Beat Streuli

“I'm interested in photographs that have no personal signature.”

Photograph Signatures

Author:Thomas Struth

“[I]n general, my work is less about expanding the possibilities of photography than about re-investing it with a truer perception of things by returning to a simple method, one that photography had from the beginning of its existence.”

Simple Existence Possibility Perception Photography Method Investing Expanding

Author:Thomas Struth

“The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose an experiential model.”

Models Function Photograph Metaphor Cease Propose

Author:Thomas Struth

“For me, making a photograph is mostly an intellectual process of understanding people or cities and their historical and phenomenological connections. At that point the photo is almost made, and all that remains is the mechanical process.”

People Made Process Understanding Cities Intellectual Connections Remains Historical Photograph All That Remains

Author:Thomas Struth