“I like being involved in the lighter side of journalism because it serves a purpose, and it's fun. And I can keep my opinions off camera if I want.” IfsWantI CanPurposeFunSidesOpinionInvolvedCamerasJournalismLightersLighter Side Author:Eleanor Mondale
“Leica are known for their still camera lenses and in the last year and a half have come out with a series of film lenses and they are brilliant. The best thing about them, apart from their quality, which is uniform, is that each one is the same size, pretty much the same weight... So in terms of fitting into the rig, everything is almost purpose built for that and the quality is beautiful, really beautiful.” YearsStillsLastsBeautifulFilmPurposeTermHalfQualityKnownBuiltWeightCamerasSeriesSizeBrilliantBest ThingsLast YearUniformsLensesFittingReally BeautifulRigsCamera LensesLeica Author:Michael Seresin
“I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There was a purity to them that wasn't planned; it was realism. Over the years, the work has changed for me. I know that I have wanted to repeat myself, but I can't. I've been lost a lot of times, but then I'd just get an idea and photograph it. Once I'd started, I'd know exactly what would go down and how it would end. So I just quit doing it, because it loses all interest for me when you know what's going to happen.” KnowsYearsI CanIdeasEndsHappensWantedPurposeLostInterestLosesHappenedChangedMy FriendsDown AndCamerasPhotographQuittingInnocentRepeatsPurityRealism Author:Larry Clark
“Suddenly this camera, this thing, allowed me to move around the world in a certain kind of way, with a certain kind of purpose. (On receiving a camera for her twenty-first birthday)” WorldWayFirstsKindMovingPurposeCertainTwentiesCamerasAround The WorldReceivingFirst Birthday Author:Carrie Mae Weems
“Aesthetics does not exist for the camera as an isolated entity. Aesthetics, in fact, is inseparable from the purpose of the photographer and the use he makes of his theme. When photography fails... it is usually because a false separation has been imposed on form and content.” DoeHas BeensFactsUseFormPurposeFailingPhotographyCamerasPhotographerSeparationThemeIsolatedEntityAestheticsInseparable Author:Sid Grossman
“You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.” IfsShouldMindPurposeMemoriesPicksCamerasAccidentsCaptureVividTaking PicturesVivid Memories Book:Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition Source: Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition
“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