“I prefer theater, but I love to do films, and I prefer theater primarily because I've done more. I know less about movies. You can't lie in either medium. The wonderful thing is that the camera, just like an audience, is made out of skin - because celluloid is skin.” KnowsMadeDoneFilmLyingAudienceWonderfulSkinsTheaterCamerasMediumsWonderful ThingsCelluloid Author:Amanda Plummer
“The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.” WorldPhotographyMessagesCamerasMediumsAnother WorldCamera And Photography Author:Orson Welles
“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
“Nobody thinks about technical issues anymore because cameras or camera phones take care of that automatically. On the other hand, you still have the option of controlling every technical aspect. It's the most accessible, democratic medium available in the world.” ThinkingWorldStillsHandsCareTechnologyIssuesAspectCamerasDemocraticPhonesAvailableTake CareMediums Author:Martin Parr
“Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can readily be mastered by anyonwith a few simple instructions. It is difficult because, while while the artist working in any other medium begins with a blank surface and gradually brings his conception into being, the photographer is the only imagemaker who begins with the picture completed. His emotions, his knowledge, and his native talent are brought into focus and fixed beyond recall the moment the shutter of his camera has closed.” MomentsArtistEasyDifficultSimpleEmotionFocusTalentPhotographyCamerasPhotographerSurfaceMediumsFixedNativeContradictionConceptionInstructionRecallsBlankFormidableShutters Author:Edward Steichen
“Humans have changed the landscape so much, but images of the sea could be shared with primordial people. I just project my imagination on to the viewer, even the first human being. I think first and then imagine some scenes. Then I go out and look for them. Or I re-create these images with my camera. I love photography because photography is the most believable medium. Painting can lie, but photography never lies: that is what people used to believe.” PeopleThinkingFirstsBelieveHumansLooksUsedLyingImaginationHuman BeingsImagineSeaChangedPaintingSceneProjectsPhotographyCamerasPhotographerMediumsLandscapeViewersMy ImaginationBelievableNever LiePhotography Love Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto
“In looking at Hollywood and its structure, the director controls the medium, and I want to be in control of certain things. I want to be able to get my own ideas and my own feelings out there, and the only way to do that is to be behind the camera.” WayWantIdeasFeelingsAbleCertainMy OwnBehindsDirectorsHollywoodCamerasStructureMediums Author:Jamie Foxx
“I think one of the things you have to have is a respect for the camera, a real respect, and a real love for it, and to really, when I say take it seriously, quote 'seriously', I mean not patronize it. It's a big mistake to patronize it and think it's a third rate medium, because it's not, it's a great art form.” ThinkingMeanArtRealBigsFormMistakeThirdsCamerasRateMediumsReal LoveGreat ArtBig Mistake Author:Anthony Hopkins
“I think what's exciting about doing it as found footage - if we all are being honest, found footage gets a little bit of a bad rap sometimes, but I think that there's a lot of potential in the medium in taking it seriously and in treating the audience with respect and in treating the characters with respect in terms of, why is the camera really on? Where would the camera be when it is on?” IfsThinkingLittlesSometimesCharacterFoundBitsTermAudienceHonestLittle BitExcitingCamerasRapMediumsBeing Honest Author:Dean Israelite
“I'm the most experienced cinematographer in this medium, so there's no point in having that extra conversation in the middle of the loop. You're making the film in relation to what's happening now, and you can't really affect what's happening now. It's not like you're in control of anything in front of the camera. If you're calling yourself the director and you're not the cinematographer, I think you're kidding yourself.” IfsThinkingFilmMiddleFrontsLike YouCallingDirectorsConversationHappeningsRelationCamerasMediumsExtrasNo PointLoopsCinematographersKidding Yourself Author:David Douglas
“Once a photographer is convinced that the camera can lie and that, strictly speaking, the vast majority of photographs are camera lies, inasmuch as they tell only part of a story or tell it in distorted form, half the battle is won. Once he has conceded that photography is not a naturalistic medium of rendition and that striving for naturalism in a photograph is futile, he can turn his attention to using a camera to make more effective pictures.” StoriesFormLyingTurnsAttentionHalfBattlePhotographyCamerasMajorityStrivePhotographerPhotographConvincedMediumsNaturalismConceded Author:Andreas Feininger
“Photography, precisely because it can only be produced in the present and because it is based on what exists objectively before the camera, takes its place as the most satisfactory medium for registering objective life in all its aspects, and from this comes its documental value. If to this is added sensibility and understanding and, above all, a clear orientation as to the place it should have in the field of historical development, I believe that the result is something worthy of a place in social production, to which we should all contribute.” IfsShouldBelieveValuesI BelieveSocialUnderstandingResultsClearFieldsDevelopmentPhotographyAspectShould HaveCamerasHistoricalProductionsWorthyObjectivesMediumsSensibilityOrientation Author:Tina Modotti
“The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the camera has withered the pride of handworked mediums. Painting survives on a case-by-case basis, its successes amounting to special exemptions from a verdict of history.” ArtProblemEyeFilmCasesSpecialPaintingPridePhotographyBasesCamerasVideoMediumsDominantExtensionsNineteenVerdictWitheredPictorialExemption Author:Peter Schjeldahl
“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 is a very forgiving medium. Anybody that can afford film and a camera can make pictures.” FilmPhotographyCamerasForgivingMediums Author:Todd Walker
“I feel like doing theatre helps my on-camera work and my on-camera work kind of helps my theatre work. So I love to be able to bounce through the mediums.” FeelsKindHelpingAbleCamerasTheatreMediumsBounce Author:Dan Amboyer
“I think I'm becoming more relaxed in front of a camera. I suppose I'll always feel slightly more at home on stage. It's more of an actor's medium. You are your own editor, nobody else is choosing what is being seen of you.” ThinkingFeelsHomeActorsStageFrontsBecomingCamerasMediumsEditorsRelaxedBecoming More Author:Michael Sheen
“"Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more likely to approach nature in a spirit of inquiry, of communion, instead of with the saucy swagger of self-dubbed "artists"."” SelfSpiritLyingArtistEffortHonestApproachPhotographyCamerasPhotographerMediumsCommunionInquirySwagger Book:The daybooks of Edward Weston Source: The daybooks of Edward Weston
“The purpose of photography is the transmission of a visualized sector of life through the medium of the camera into a mental process that starts with the photographer's thinking about the subject he photographs and is continued in the mind of the spectator.” ThinkingMindPurposeProcessSubjectsPhotographyCamerasPhotographerPhotographMediumsSpectatorsTransmission Author:Roman Vishniac
“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
“The majority of my background is multi-camera format, which is very broad and a very arch perception of reality. Whereas single camera tends to be more truthful and a little more intimate of a medium. Friends was an education in intelligent comedic banter; in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education in group dynamic. I came out of there with a masters degree in comedy.” LittlesRealityStudyComedyGroupsMastersSceneDegreesPerceptionIntelligentCamerasMajorityBackgroundsMediumsIntimateBroadsTruthfulFormatBanterComedicArchesVernacularPerception RealityMasters Degree Author:Matt LeBlanc
“Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums.” DifferentJobsFilmTermTelevisionApproachTheaterCamerasTechniqueMediumsCraftsTranslateFilm And Television Author:Joe Morton