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Quote by Lola Alvarez Bravo

“If I came out a photographer it's because I knew about painting, composition, and the handling of light.”

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Lola Alvarez Bravo was a prominent Mexican photographer known for her profound insights into the image of women and the cultural life of Mexico. Her work had a significant impact on the photography scene in the mid-20th century. more

“Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico. The art called popular is fugitive in character, with less of the impersonal and intellectual characteristics of the schools. It is the work of talent nourished by personal experience and that of the community - rather than being taken from the experiences of painters in other times and other cultures.”

People Art Character School Culture Community Taken Talent Intellectual Painter Characteristics Mexico Conquest Personal Experiences Other Cultures Fugitive Bravo

Book:Manuel Álvarez Bravo

Source: Manuel Álvarez Bravo

“I think that a visual artist's philosophy develops much more freely than a writer's or a thinker's philosophy. It is not so disciplined. The photographer works with both his eyes and his mind.”

Thinking Mind Philosophy Eye Artist Photographer His Eyes Visuals Thinker Visual Art Visual Artist

Author:Manuel Alvarez Bravo

“Each image suggests an inner reality, a kind of scar of the past, a reflection of an act or an event once lived.”

Kind Reality Past Events Reflection Scar

Book:Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography

Source: Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography

“Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.”

Inspirational Problem Growth

Author:Richard Bach

“You see in the photograph what you are.”

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Book:Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography

Source: Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography

“In a sense, photographs are highly literary, and the photographer, like the writer, has to be both a master of craft and a visionary. Patient accumulation of facts and then speculation about their meaning is the nature of authorship in both mediums.”

Facts Masters Patient Photographer Photograph Mediums Crafts Speculation Accumulation Visionaries Authorship

Author:Peter C Bunnell

“In photography, the issue of the integration of form and content is exceptionally difficult because of the widely held belief that photographs must be a kind of vicarious experience of the subject itself.”

Kind Form Belief Difficult Issues Subjects Photography Photograph Integration Vicarious

Book:Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography

Source: Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography

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