“There's a certain way people are used to seeing nude women, and that's in a submissive, coy pose, not looking at the camera. And in this poster, I'm looking dead into the camera with no expression on my face. I think it freaks a lot of people out.” PeopleThinkingWayFacesUsedCertainSeeingExpressionCamerasFreakPostersSubmissivePosing Author:Rooney Mara
“Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive.” ShouldArtArtistBreakAliveExpressionClaimsCamerasConventionsWornFreedom Of ExpressionWorn Out Author:Alvin Langdon Coburn
“Photography is unlike any other art form. In the other arts there is always a continuous interplay between the artist and his art. He has the painting or sculpture before him. What we have tried to do is to provide a medium for "artistic expression" to anyone with only a reasonable amount of time. By giving him a camera system with which he need only control his selection of focus, composition and lighting, we free him to select the moment and to criticize immediately what he has done. We enable him to see what else he wants to do on the basis of what he has just learned.” WantNeedsGivingArtDoneMomentsFormArtistFocusPaintingExpressionAmountPhotographyBasesCamerasMediumsArtisticReasonableCriticizeCompositionSelectionSculptureSelectLightingArtistic Expression Author:Edwin Land
“Michael Moore and I actually have a lot in common. We both appreciate living in a country where there's free expression. But Michael, if you ever show up at my front door with a camera, I'll kill you. I mean it.” IfsMeanCountryShowsCommonDoorsFrontsExpressionAppreciateCamerasFront DoorsFree Expression Author:Clint Eastwood
“I raised the camera, pretended to study a focus which did not include them, and waited and watched closely, sure that I would finally catch the revealing expression, one that would sum it all up, life that is rhythmed by movement but which a stiff image destroys, taking time in cross section, if we do not choose the essential imperceptible fraction of it.” IfsStudyFocusMovementExpressionEssentialsCrossesCamerasRaisedTake TimeSectionsRevealingFractions Author:Julio Cortazar
“We used the camera only as a means of expression and as a visual medium that offers possibilities found in no other artistic technique, possibilities that the eye cannot catch in their totality. We tried to establish a characteristic vision of photography.” MeanEyeUsedFoundVisionPossibilityExpressionOffersPhotographyCamerasTechniqueMediumsArtisticCharacteristicsVisualsTotality Author:Piet Zwart
“Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working behind the camera. They are not reality, they form part of the language of culture.” MenWorldRealityFormCultureLanguageBehindsExpressionPhotographyCamerasInvisibleFraudConvincingFooled Author:Edmundo Desnoes
“I try to express with the camera what the story is, to get to the heart of the story with picture. In battle I look at things first in terms of people, second in terms of strategies or casualties... To tell a story, you don't photograph one hundred dead civilians to prove there were one hundred dead civilians. You photograph one dead civilian with an expression on his face that says, This is what it's like if you're a dead civilian in Vietnam.” PeopleIfsTryingFirstsLooksHeartStoriesFacesTermExpressionBattleProveHundredCamerasStrategyPhotographVietnamCiviliansCasualties Author:Horst Faas
“There was actually a camera on your face. I don't know so much about the animation process but the camera was in our face so it could get expressions from our faces that would eventually arrive on the gnomes. It almost felt like you were cheating at times because it was a wee bit too much fun. You were in that box on your own. Kelly [Asbury] was in Toronto, I was in LA, so I was just on my own. I thought: "I can't be getting paid for this as well!"” KnowsWellsI CanFacesFunFeltBitsProcessMy OwnToo MuchExpressionLike YouPaidCamerasBoxesCheatingYour FaceAnimationTorontoGnomeToo Much Fun Author:Ashley Jensen
“Initially, it connected with me when I was a kid, seeing a lot of movies while growing up in Los Angeles. And Sam's [Fuller] pictures are an expression of such a distinct voice that he was one of those filmmakers who made me aware that there was, in fact, a real presence behind the camera that was telling the story, as opposed to actors just presenting it.” MadeRealFactsStoriesKidsActorsVoiceBehindsGrowing UpGrowingSeeingExpressionCamerasConnectedFilmmakerLos AngelesPresenting Author:Curtis Hanson
“I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my honeymoon. As soon as I became familiar with the camera, I was intrigued with the possibilities of expression it offered. It was like a discovery for me.” FirstsGivenTakenPossibilityExpressionPhotographyDiscoveryCamerasPhotographerDearFamiliarIntriguedDear FriendHoneymoon Author:Aaron Siskind
“More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it is too soon to define the characteristic of the photographic style today, one common denominator, rooted in tradition, seems in the ascendancy. The direct use of the camera for what it can do best, and that is the revelation, interpretation, and discovery of the world of man and of nature. The greatest challenge to the photographer is to express the inner significance through the outward form.” MenWorldWellsUseSeemsTodayFormCan DoChallengesCommonStyleExpressionCommunicationApproachPhotographyDiscoveryTraditionDirectCamerasPhotographerMediumsCharacteristicsRevelationsSignificanceInterpretationAestheticRootedCommon DenominatorAscendancy Author:Beaumont Newhall
“To me photography can be simultaneously both a record and a mirror or window of self-expression the camera is generally assumed to be unable to depict that which is not visible to the eye and yet, the photographer who wields it well can depict what lies unseen in his memory.” WellsSelfEyeLyingMemoriesRecordsExpressionPhotographyWindowMirrorsCamerasPhotographerVisibleUnseenSelf Expression Author:Eikoh Hosoe
“The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.” PeopleNeedsFeelsI CanPlayFormSongDifficultRecordsImpossibleExpressionBandCamerasAgentsPianoMusic BusinessMovie Business Author:Jeremy Renner