“Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph cannot lie. Actually there never was a more unmitigated liar.” IdeasLyingAcceptingPhotographyPhotographParadoxLiarsCherish Author:Walter J. Phillips
“I accept that all photography is voyeuristic and exploitative, and obviously I live with my own guilt and conscience. It's part of the test and I don't have a problem with it.” ProblemMy OwnAcceptingPhotographyConscienceTestsGuilt Author:Martin Parr
“I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time. Photography gladly accepts the challenge because it is at home in its element: namely, realism - real life - the now.” WorldBelieveRealHomeI BelieveChallengesAcceptingCreativeElementsPhotographyPhotographerReal LifeMediumsOur TimeRealism Author:Berenice Abbott
“And one has to remember that no photography can pretend to show the truth. A picture only shows a given situation under a very specific perspective, consciously or not, openly or not, relevantly or not. Photographers have to accept they can just convey fragments of illusory realities and relate their own intimate experience of the world. In this process of fictionalising an unreachable truth, it's up to them to impose their doubts about any photographic truth, or accept being impotent pawns in the mediatic game.” WorldShowsRealityRememberGamesGivenProcessSituationAcceptingDoubtPerspectivePhotographyPhotographerRelateIntimateFragmentsPawnsIllusoryUnreachable Author:Antoine D'Agata
“To know whether photography is or is not an art matters little. What is important is to distinguish between good and bad photography. By good is meant that photography which accepts all the limitations inherent in photographic technique and takes advantage of the possibilities and characteristics the medium offers. By bad photography is mean that which is done, one may say, with a kind of inferiority complex, with no appreciation of what photography itself offers: but on the contrary, recurring to all sorts of imitations.” KnowsKindMayMeanLittlesArtImportantMatterDoneAcceptingPossibilityOffersPhotographyAdvantageComplexesAppreciationTechniqueContraryMediumsLimitationCharacteristicsInherentImitationGood And BadInferiorityRecurringInferiority ComplexNo Appreciation Book:Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti Source: Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti
“... the reason we think that computer graphics technology has succeeded in faking reality is that we, over the course of the last hundred and fifty years, have come to accept the image of photography and film as reality.” ThinkingYearsReasonRealityLastsFilmCoursesAcceptingTechnologyComputerPhotographyHundredFiftyPhotography And FilmComputer Graphics Author:Lev Manovich