“The main reason I went to digital was because I got time-lapse, video, and still images all in one camera. Having a minimal amount of gear is really important for someone who wants to walk around. That allowed me to have this flexibility to document things in different ways.” WayWantStillsImportantDifferentReasonWalksAmountCamerasVideoDifferent WaysDigitalDocumentsFlexibilityGearsLapsesTime Lapse Author:Andy Goldsworthy
“In case you haven't heard, my girlfriends and I have declared the summer of 2012 as the best summer ever. The best way to document said 'best summer ever' is with a good ol' disposable camera. Smile, click, move on! Nobody gets pic approval, and there's no time wasted gathering around the camera to analyze a moment that just happened.” WaySaidMomentsMovingCasesHappenedHeardHavensSummerCamerasBest WayGirlfriendWasting TimeApprovalDocumentsGatheringMy GirlfriendClicksWasted TimeDisposable Author:Candice Accola
“I shoot with a few different camera's. A Sony A6000 with several lenses and a Lumix LX100 with a beautiful Leica lens. I like to travel light so I can have it with me most of the time. I really try and document all the places we travel to.” TryingI CanDifferentLightBeautifulCamerasDocumentsLensesSonyTravel LightLeica Author:Eliot Lewis
“For black folks, the camera provided a means to document a reality that could, if necessary, be packed, stored, moved from place to place... [Photography] offered a way to contain memories, to overcome loss, to keep history.” IfsWayMeanRealityBlackMemoriesLossPhotographyOvercomingCamerasMovedFolksDocuments Author:Bell Hooks
“Under examination by the camera, a human body becomes for its inhabitant a field of betrayal more than a ground of communication, and the camera's further power is manifested as it documents the individual's self-conscious efforts to control the body each time it is conscious of the camera's attention to it.” HumansSelfBodyIndividualEffortAttentionFieldsCommunicationConsciousCamerasBetrayalDocumentsHuman BodyExaminationSelf Conscious Book:Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life Source: Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life
“When we were kids, growing up in the sixties, the only images we had of ourselves were either still photographs or 8mm movies.... Now we have video, digital cameras, MP3s, and a million other ways to document ourselves. But the still photograph continues to hold a sense of mystery and awe to me.” WayStillsKidsMillionsGrowing UpGrowingMysteryCamerasPhotographVideoAweDigitalSixtyDocumentsKids Growing UpDigital CamerasMp3 Author:Catherine Opie
“A photograph records both the thing in front of the camera and the conditions of its making... A photograph is also a document of the state of mind of the photographer. And if you were to extend the idea of the set-up photograph beyond just physically setting up the picture, I would argue that the photographer wills the picture into being.” IfsMindIdeasStatesRecordsConditionsFrontsCamerasPhotographerPhotographArguingSettingSettingsState Of MindDocuments Author:James Welling
“When I first had a video camera to document a performance, it was in Sweden and I remember it was really crucial for me.” FirstsRememberPerformancesCamerasVideoCrucialDocumentsSwedenVideo Cameras Author:Marina Abramovic
“I think, if you put a camera in anyone's life and document it daily from the age of 21 to 27, there are going to be things that aren't always pretty.” IfsThinkingAgeCamerasAgingBirthdayDocuments50th Birthday Author:Sienna Miller