“Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was present originally.” TogetherBeautifulMemoriesProduceCamerasGlassesCollectionsBeautiful PictureCamera Obscura Author:Arthur Schopenhauer
“I can use the camera to make a place or landscape; the camera to a greater extent projects rather than takes in or reproduces. The camera, or, rather, the eye, produces the impression of the place: I as a photographer am not passively taking in; I am active as a subject generating the object.” I CanUseEyeGreaterSubjectsObjectsProduceProjectsCamerasPhotographerActiveImpressionLandscape Book:Olafur Eliasson: photographs Source: Olafur Eliasson: photographs
“Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers... have not understood information. What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better they do it, the more they prove the victory of the camera over the human being.” HumansMemoriesHuman BeingsInformationProduceVictoryProveUnderstoodCamerasPhotographerDocumentariesSnaps Book:Towards a Philosophy of Photography Source: Towards a Philosophy of Photography
“My first pieces, in an art context, were ways to get myself off the page and into real space. These photographic pieces were ways to, literally, throw myself into my environment. They were photographs not of an activity, but through an activity; the activity (once I planted a camera in the instrument of that activity - once I, simply, held a camera in my hands) could produce a picture.” WayFirstsArtRealHandsSpaceEnvironmentPiecesProduceActivityPagesCamerasInstrumentsPhotograph Author:Vito Acconci
“Our camera does not produce pretty pictures, but exact duplications that, through our renunciation of photographic effects, turn out to be relatively objective. The photo can optically replace its object to a certain degree. This takes on special meaning if the object cannot be preserved.” IfsDoeCertainTurnsSpecialEffectsObjectsProduceDegreesCamerasObjectivesRenunciationDuplicationPretty Picture Author:Bernd Becher
“We're so conditioned to the syntax of the camera that we don't realize that we are running on only half the visual alphabet... It's what we see every day in the magazines, on billboards and even on television. All those images are being produced basically the same way, through a lens and a camera. I'm saying there are many, many other ways to produce photographic imagery, and I would imagine that a lot of them have yet to be explored.” WayRunningRealizingHalfImagineProduceTelevisionCamerasMagazinesVisualsImagine ThatLensesImageryAlphabetBillboardsSyntax Author:Adam Fuss
“I always try to create equal power between the subject and the object, so as not to end up creating a relationship where the camera is here and the object out there. This is for me a very difficult and sensitive balance. When I produce a work, cut and frame images, I realize that spectators can identify with the images and almost forget that someone else actually made them. This would be the optimal situation. I don't know whether I succeed in doing so, but that's what I would like to have happen.” KnowsTryingMadeEndsHappensWould BeDifficultRealizingForgetSituationCuttingSubjectsObjectsProduceBalanceSucceedEqualCreatingCamerasSensitiveSpectatorsOptimalEqual Power Author:Pipilotti Rist
“As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.” MomentsShowsPleasureSpecialProducePhotographyCamerasPhotographerPhotographSimplicitySomething SpecialCamera And PhotographyCapturing A Moment Photography Author:Sam Abell