“It was extremely useful to grow up in front of the camera. It gives the camera no significance. I think it helped me have perspective on things. The attraction that Hollywood can have, I feel like I'm over that. Instead I just concentrate on acting.” ThinkingGivingFeelsGrowsActingGrowing UpFrontsPerspectiveHollywoodCamerasAttractionSignificancePerspective On Things Author:Giovanni Ribisi
“First of all, I wish everyone who loved football could stand in the quarterback's shoes just for a play, because I think it would be tremendously humbling to anyone who loved the game to say, "I didn't -- I had no idea." You can think about what it would be like, and the cameras are getting better at giving that perspective, that one that the skycam comes down and you get a sense of it, but you just -- you don't know.” ThinkingKnowsGivingFirstsIdeasPlayWould BeGamesWishFootballPerspectiveDown AndCamerasShoesNo IdeaGet BetterQuarterbackHumbling Author:Steve Young
“The cameras are getting smaller, they're getting more versatile, and eventually, I'm sure you'll have a camera with lots and lots of things on it so you can alter the picture. You could alter perspective.” PerspectiveCamerasVersatile Author:David Hockney
“The photographer who attempts to fit happily into the world by using the traditional perspective of the camera will end up falling into the hole of the "idea" he has dug for himself.” WorldIdeasEndsFallPerspectiveFitCamerasPhotographerHolesTraditional Author:Daido Moriyama
“I feel that instead of putting myself out in that light, I'd rather be on this side of the camera just to make sure that the movie, from my perspective as far as police procedures, is done properly. I got my daughters in it, that's good enough for me. Scott's got a way of talking me into things, and I told him I don't like the way he can talk me into stuff.” WayFeelsDoneEnoughLightStuffSidesTalkingPerspectiveDaughterPoliceCamerasMy DaughterGood EnoughProceduresWay Of Talking Author:Ralph Sarchie
“I once got a little camera to use for details of architecture and so forth but the photo was always so different from the perspective the eye gives, I gave it up.” GivingLittlesDifferentUseEyePerspectiveCamerasDetailsArchitecture Author:Edward Hopper
“Often what is nearest is hardest of all to see - try asking a fish to define water. Distance opens a door to revelation. When the first great distances of space were conquered by technology, a camera altered the human perspective on the Earth as radically as Galileo did when he proved the sun was the center of the universe. The ecology movement was born from a photographically altered consciousness.” TryingFirstsHumansEarthUniverseWaterBornSpaceConsciousnessTechnologySunDoorsMovementPerspectiveAskingCamerasDistanceFishesHardestRevelationsEcologyAlteredCenter Of The Universe Author:Vicki Goldberg
“The camera's perspective exactly matches that of the assassin: it now shoots the tourists shooting their own memorial photos, and we can watch this in real time.” RealWatchesPerspectiveCamerasShootingMemorialTouristsAssassins Author:Joachim Schmid
“Technology has a great deal to do with it. The Panaflex camera was a big breakthrough when it came along; it changed everything, because now you could shoot from the perspective of a person riding in the backseat of a car.” PersonsBigsDealsTechnologyCarChangedPerspectiveCamerasRidingBreakthroughBackseat Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“I encourage playfulness and experimentation with both the camera and subject matter. Sometimes there is an obvious perspective, but it is important never to be satisfied with that.” ImportantSometimesMatterSubjectsPerspectiveCamerasObviousSatisfiedSubject MatterExperimentationPlayfulness Author:Michael Kenna
“While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.” LifeLittlesEyeVisionPerspectiveProvePerceptionPhotographyCamerasPhotographerPhotographPermitProvincesPhotography By PhotographersGreat PhotographyCamera And PhotographyArt PhotographyDigital PhotographyDocumentary Photography Author:Dorothea Lange